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by pquki4 867 days ago
And you won't get Skype, Slack, Teams and many other applications people use on a daily basis on Linux, at all. Features on Mac will be limited compared to Windows version, because the team prioritizes work on the platform with the largest userbase. There will be more inconsistencies in feature and UI for "desktop" version vs web version, if companies still bother to maintain two versions.

That's the future you want to see, huh?

Have you developed a cross-platform desktop application in the last few years and make sure everything works on every platform? Probably not. If there is a way to make it easy, cheap, reliable to support multiple platforms and the solution takes little system resources, I'm sure everyone will want to do that. Before that happens, stop your wasting complaining about the Electorn mode of making apps. This will not change. It is the only thing that makes business sense and make developers' life easy at this time.

Or to put it simply, are you going to pay for the extra cost used for developing "native" applications for each platform? Put your money where your mouth is.
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steve_rambo 867 days ago
Telegram manages just fine, and looks the same on all platforms. I even ran it on FreeBSD for a few weeks with no issues. Their desktop client is developed pretty much by one person in C++ with Qt. It's really feature rich these days and actually works, unlike some of the things you've listed.
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pxc 867 days ago
Doesn't Telegram use a web view via QtWebkit?
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niutech 865 days ago
No, its UI is made with Qt/C++: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/tree/dev/Telegra...
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chriswarbo 867 days ago
Seems a bit weird to use Skype as your example, since (a) it already had a native application for Linux, (b) AFAIK it was the same (Qt) codebase as Windows and Mac, so no feature discrepancy, and (c) Skype also developed clients for other operating systems like Symbian, Android, Blackberry, etc. as well as a Java-based client for other mobiles.

If anything, it's easier to develop cross-platform native applications these days, since the mobile space has mostly collapsed to just Android + iOS.

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niutech 865 days ago
Have a look at many cross-platform native apps like Jami, Pidgin, VNC, XnView - all made with Qt/GTK+.
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