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by didibus 2232 days ago
I don't know how people are finding ways to contradict your comment.

Native means using the native UI toolkit. Or if not about UIs, it can mean compiled to native machine code ahead of time.

People used to care about native vs non-native because of the look and feel.

Now people are complaining about performance, memory use, and startup times. Everyone would be happy using a non native toolkit if it was fast, used little memory and started quickly.

Why can't we be precise with our language? We're engineers, it seems critical to use precise terminology. If you don't like the look and feels let's discuss that, if you don't like the memory use, let's discuss that, if you don't like the distribution or install size, let's discuss that.

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People mainly want their autocomplete, accessibility and double-click text to work the same everywhere.

wxwidget guys on IRC used to showcase how their buttons titlebars and menus blended with the windows xp back in early 2000 but I'm sure they are past that at this point.