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by cropcirclbureau 1018 days ago
My understanding is that most of the new generation of GUI frameworks/application runtime are targeting all platforms. And there's clearly a demand for such feature set if the popularity of Electron says anything. Software businesses no longer want to specialize on specific platforms. What's more, it's provably[0] doable[1] to[2] do[3] so[4]. So, why shouldn't they?

    [0]: https://avaloniaui.net/
    [1]: https:/flutter.dev
    [2]: https://platform.uno/
    [3]: https://unity.com/
    [4]: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-desktop/
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> most of the new generation of GUI frameworks/application runtime are targeting all platforms

And they all fail miserably in innumerable ways that make you reach for OS-specific solutions if those frameworks allow that.

Just the simple fact that mist mobile is touch-oriented small screens with imprecise controls, and desktop is mouse-and-keybord-oriented with big screens and precise controls make the two largely incompatible.