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by Polylactic_acid 2158 days ago
>I think it's for reasons like this that many mac users strongly prefer native apps over Electron or web apps.

Users on every OS do.
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Wowfunhappy 2158 days ago
Could have fooled me with regard to Windows. I'm unfortunately not sure what a "native" Windows app is at this point. They've gone through so many frameworks over the years, everything is a mish-mosh.

And this isn't just a result of legacy compatibility. If you are a developer today, and you want to make a really good Windows app, what approach do you take? Is it obvious?

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Polylactic_acid 2158 days ago
On windows its just a resource hog. On linux and mac they stick out like a pimple on a pumpkin. The number 1 annoyance for me is because they are based on chromium which doesn't have wayland support, all electron apps do not dpi scale properly with multiple monitors.
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Gene_Parmesan 2158 days ago
IMO a fully native Windows app would probably just be Win32, but really WPF/UWP stuff is just about native as well.

WPF is still my favorite GUI framework/toolkit by far, if we're talking standard business app development.

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