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by whywhywhywhy 151 days ago
This battle is long won in favor of webtech in every realm but 3d/video editing/audio work/things that do gpu heavy lifting like game engines.

Outside those sort of spaces it’s hard to name a popular piece of software still on native that isn’t a wrapped webapp.
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layer8 150 days ago
Microsoft Office apps, Java IDEs, text editors in general. Most of the time I spend with software is with non-web-UI applications.

To the extent that the battle has been won, the apps it has been won with are nevertheless second-class compared to native-level usability.

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whywhywhywhy 148 days ago
> Microsoft Office apps

Thought these were web wrappers now if you use the latest

> text editors in general

Definitely not in general, VSCode and Cursor are both webtech and are extremely popular. Only terminal editors are native and then beyond that you have things like SublimeText, Textmate which are extremely niche now.

> Java IDEs

Yeah those and XCode I guess, Java IDE is extremely niche compared to webdev.

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Sammi 151 days ago
> video editing

cough CapCut cough

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