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by flukus 2975 days ago
It certainly feels more native than web/electron, swing, XUL, GTK and just about every other cross platform technology. It's about as good as you'll get without a native client for each platform, which will always be the best option.

The only other options is the hybrid approach which uses native widgets like wxWidgets, but this means you're limited by the lowest common denominator.
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roryisok 2975 days ago
I used to care about the native feel, but now as long as something has a good UI I don't really care that much. Case in point, visual studio code. The file menu is native and that's about it. The rest is html / JavaScript and it's a great interface. I don't care that the buttons don't match whatever OS theme I'm using. The web never has.
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Can_Not 2975 days ago
> Case in point, visual studio code.

I think most people consider visual studio to be an exception, not the norm. Whether or not visual studio's performance success represents what the typical developer should be expected to get when writing idiomatic JavaScript in Electron has probably not been fairly evaluated in the face of popular performance slugs like slack.

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roryisok 2974 days ago
I was talking about nicely designed non-native UX/UI. Why are you talking about electron performance?
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flukus 2975 days ago
> The web never has.

One of the best things to happen lately is reader view which does make a good chunk of the web match my theme. There's always been plugins, custom css, etc to work around this failing of the web.

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