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by scottyah 9 days ago
They're some of the only new UIs to be made in the last decade. Almost everyone else stays in the browser (or something close like electron- claude code is actually mostly written in React, they couldn't get far from web dev). The problem is they need to interact with the local filesystem, and not many people have built apps for such a wide range of devices in a long time, and of that small talent pool I bet most are corpo coders- moving too slow and to focused on "the right way" to actually ship more than detailed Jira tickets. They also don't have time for stable releases because competition is so fierce.

But I almost always think of things from a talent-pool-first perspective. Perhaps there are actual technical issues like what Boris was referring to.
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watermelon0 9 days ago
Luckily for them, every OS has (at least one) native way of building applications, and with the power of AI they could easily make 3 different desktop UIs, while reusing the same core logic.
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skydhash 9 days ago
> The problem is they need to interact with the local filesystem, and not many people have built apps for such a wide range of devices in a long time,

Did all the Qt developers go to mars?

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nosioptar 9 days ago
If only there was an easy high-level language that's taught to first year students that allows them to write once, run anywhere.

If they're too lazy to learn java, haxe has hxwidgets[0]. Haxe is pretty damn close to js. If a dev can't handle that, they should turn in their keyboard and get a job that doesn't require a brain, like being a senator or federal judge.

[0] https://haxeui.org/getting-started/haxeui-hxwidgets/

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