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by gumby 1140 days ago
People have been trying to make that work since the 80s.

The different interfaces don’t have the same metaphors or semantics so cross-platform UI toolkits are always restricted to worst-case lowest common denominator capabilities.

You see this outside UX too — few programs are written to pure POSIX because usually you want to do more than that core.