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frollogastontoday at 4:30 PM1 replyview on HN

Wasm still doesn't let you make native user interfaces, the UI is in the web browser. You can put native UI components into a React Native or Electron app though.


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flohofwoetoday at 7:02 PM

> Wasm still doesn't let you make native user interfaces

That's currently only not possible because nobody wants to do the work to create something like wasi-gfx (https://wasi-gfx.dev/), but for native UI frameworks instead of 3D APIs.

The inconvenient truth is that even "native" cross-platform applications hardly ever go through the trouble to target the platform-native UI framework (and instead they go through non-native frameworks like Qt or a webview wrapper).

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