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by pdpi 2046 days ago
This is a frankly ridiculous take and completely misunderstands what makes Electron attractive.

There are no "Electron-based Mac apps", because nobody is targeting the Mac specifically with those apps. What we do have is web-first apps that use Electron to provide a desktop experience (like Slack), and desktop-first apps that use Electron as a multi-platform runtime (like VS Code).

The first group tends to have webview-based "native" apps and running those on the Mac wouldn't realise any of the expected advantages of a native app. The latter group won't have any sort of native iOS app to begin with. At any rate, neither of those groups is likely to migrate to native apps because of this move.

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> This is a frankly ridiculous take and completely misunderstands what makes Electron attractive.

Came here to say that.

Same