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by criddell 1103 days ago
> there will be no good cross-platform mobile UI story

Generally (IMHO) there are no good cross-platform stories, mobile or otherwise with the notable exception of some game engines. The closest you can get is choosing the web browser as your platform and writing a web app (Electron).

If you want to make the best app you can, use the native toolkit directly or via a framework for your UI.
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koito17 1103 days ago
For web apps on desktop you're not even restricted to Electron anymore. Thanks to Tauri, I feel a lot more comfortable shipping web apps beyond the browser (and React Native) since I don't have to pay the cost of bundling Chromium and Node.js. The Rust ecosystem is large enough that any backend-related task I would use Node.js for has an equivalent in Rust.
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pjmlp 1103 days ago
We were never restricted to Electron.

There are browsers already installed, and MSHTML apps and XUL predate it for a decade.

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