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by roryisok 2983 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 2982 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 2981 days ago
I was talking about nicely designed non-native UX/UI. Why are you talking about electron performance?
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flukus 2983 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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