[paxys]

What are some examples of well-written UI-heavy native desktop apps? I'm curious because I see the usual complaints whenever Slack (or another Electron app) is mentioned, and largely agree with them, but what's an app that has actually done native well across Windows/macOS/Linux?

[SomeOldThrow]

They’re apparently quite valuable and definitely quite rich. The typical issues of cross platform development is far below their pay grade. The better answer is they simply don’t care about the needs of their end users because they sell to management and it would bring profits down to feign interest.

Also, you could have googled this.

[Nextgrid]

Adobe Photoshop & its friends? Microsoft Office? Just a few examples, I'm sure there's plenty more.

[sansnomme]

Those either are not single-codebase-crossplatform or are architectured like a game engine. Yes Electron is not optimal but if you want a "rich" UI with fancy animations and custom interfaces for everything instead of a generic winforms-style UX then the browser is a good compromise. That or feel free to manually build everything using OpenGL/Godot/Unity. (Using a browser means you are shifting all the game-engine-level graphics requirement to a billion dollar company. The problem doesn't actually magically go away.

(And to be fair, UI development in XAML on Windows is not too different from HTML/CSS/JS i.e. no Drag and Drop absolute positioning, everything is relative with a constraint system bolted on top.)

[paxys]

Adobe and Microsoft are orders of magnitude bigger than Slack, so it isn't really the best comparison. And none of those apps support Linux.

[elcomet]

Telegram desktop is very fast

[throwaway5d097]

Blender, Kdenlive, Gimp.