[diego_moita]

Outside of niche applications (e.g. virtual desktops, gamming, embedded systems) native UIs are dead.

There are even parts of both Windows and MacOS rendered through HTML. If I remember correctly, at least in Windows 10, File Explorer was rendered through Internet Explorer.

Web rendering doesn't need to be only through Electron/Node. There are other libraries much more performant and lean (Dioxus, etc).

[sgt]

> native UIs are dead.

Not in the world of macOS and iOS at least. Here native apps still rule, as there's literally no performant alternative (the OP's complaints about Markdown are misplaced - there's been no interest in MD and SwiftUI and that's why there's no good option. But in ObjC/Swift there is).

In fact, most of the apps I am using on a day to day is native. The Electron apps I use are okay (e.g. Slack) but they absolutely fail the native Turing test.

[argee]

> the native Turing test

What does this mean?

[sgt]

Basically that it's easy - for a user - to determine that a particular app is definitely not built using native SDK. Slack is an example.