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by qwerty456127 1820 days ago
I believe companies are abandoning native because Electron lets them reuse the same code and the same developers they employ for the web and also because there is no cross-platform GUI toolkit good enough. Qt could be such a toolkit but you can only choose between very expensive and GPL, and you probably wouldn't even have the GPL version if the company behind wasn't forced to maintain it.
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I can understand if MS Teams was some indie dev. Surely MS can just hire more developers?