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I agree, the controls and OS integration are what makes the most difference in the whole debate. But: Why aren't there native controls in the browser? Why do they suck?

> Even more «native» toolkits, like GTK and QT are have small discrepancies.

And then there is truly native stuff and you still have discrepancies like bugs that make you write your own UI kits, recently witnessed here:

https://nova.app/

> Here's a little editor story for fun. During beta we found some bugs in Apple's text layout engine that we just could not fix. Our solution? Writing our own text layout manager… from scratch.

That is a great example for Panic's dedication and at the same time a sane argument for doing cross-platform development, if you can't even trust the truly native libraries.