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by Eric_WVGG 2522 days ago
I know, I'm a React Native developer.

I'm just saying that "native client" doesn't necessarily mean separate Mac, Windows and Linux ports; furthermore, for a billion dollar company, a native client of _some_ kind isn't an unrealistic demand.
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_bxg1 2522 days ago
That's fair; although I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to have such a consistent and unique look-and-feel with React Native (you can correct me if I'm wrong). It's debatable whether that's a good tradeoff, but it's totally one that some people would make.
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Eric_WVGG 2522 days ago
well, consistent with what? If you mean the native Mac/Windows/Linux desktop experience, yes, it's definitely impractical to do that with any size budget. But the current Electron app isn't either. But if you want consistency with the web app, I don't see anything difficult about that.

I do wonder if the plugin/extensibility architecture — "Slack Apps" like Github and IMGUR and OpenTable — is the real answer. (Unless I'm mistake and these run on the native mobile apps.)

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_bxg1 2522 days ago
Consistent across OSes; I haven't really done native desktop dev but it's my impression that the elements you're given can't be customized to nearly the same degree that they can on the web, via CSS.
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charrondev 2522 days ago
Twitter has a super custom look and feel and I think that’s mostly react-native and react-native-web. I could be wrong about that though.
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