I agree that there’s chaos everywhere and system integration on individual axes is a better way to look at it but then it turns out that Electron is more native than most GUI libs out there. Browser devs worked very hard and for a long time to integrate with host OSes. Browsers have native text rendering, good accessibility, IME support on all platforms, etc. All these features are usually missing from the hot new UI libs.
ImHex is a great hex editor, lots of features. It’s got antialiased fonts like only a year ago. Fonts still look not exactly as the rest of the OS. Has no accessibility integration at all.
Zed, looks pretty good at first glance. No accessibility.
“Native” implies all the features that the platform provides. It is chaotic on all major platofrms but it’s still meaningful.
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I agree that there’s chaos everywhere and system integration on individual axes is a better way to look at it but then it turns out that Electron is more native than most GUI libs out there. Browser devs worked very hard and for a long time to integrate with host OSes. Browsers have native text rendering, good accessibility, IME support on all platforms, etc. All these features are usually missing from the hot new UI libs.
ImHex is a great hex editor, lots of features. It’s got antialiased fonts like only a year ago. Fonts still look not exactly as the rest of the OS. Has no accessibility integration at all.
Zed, looks pretty good at first glance. No accessibility.
“Native” implies all the features that the platform provides. It is chaotic on all major platofrms but it’s still meaningful.