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by AlienRobot 804 days ago
Because most of the time you didn't have to implement this. The UI toolkit implemented this. When you have to do everything from scratch, most people don't.

Take a simple link navbar with a menu of links on a webpage. This has existed since forever. It should be that you can open the menu with your keyboard and use up/down to navigate it. But that means writing JS code. So devs who did it from scratch didn't do it, and only those who used an UI library with that already programmed in by someone else got it.

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But "waaaahhhh native apps are soooo hard" they cry.

IDK man, every project from a single developer who uses Win32 widgets is infinitely better, more predictable, more usable, and more professional looking than any shitty electron app.