[IshKebab]

I think the popularity of Electron has shown that is actually isn't very important to users to use native controls.

Also on Desktop, macOS is the only one that even has a single official "native" toolkit.

[aikinai]

Electron is popular with developers, not users.

[thiht]

Any data backing that up? Don't forget HN users are a bubble. I'm actually pretty sure standard users don't even notice a difference between Electron and native apps. I for one sometimes prefer Electron apps over badly designed and ugly native apps.

[moksly]

Then why are Discord and Visual Studio Code both so popular and well liked by their users?

[dgellow]

Because they provide features their users care about. Not because of their choice of framework.

[dragonwriter]

Proving that features are important, native controls...not so much.

[obliviousonions]

UWP is actually pretty easy to use and looks great & native on Windows.

[trnglina]

UWP is hardly consistent. Just as a quick example, the context menu in the start menu is slightly different from the context menu for the task bar, which are both very different from the context menu(s!) which appear in the Windows Mail app. Or how the context menu in the start menu can exit the bounds of the start menu, but most popups/menus in UWP apps are fully bound to their parents.

[paulddraper]

Yes Windows framework #935 has actually turned out to be pretty good.