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Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native (tonsky.me)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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API-wise, native apps lost to web apps a long time ago. Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago

I think the argument is full code sharing with web apps. Does desktop app not use crossplatform terminal APIs, instead of JS?

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