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Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native (tonsky.me)
submitted 1 day ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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API-wise, native apps lost to web apps a long time ago. Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.

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[–] codeinabox@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine being such a slop-brainwashed fanboi

Do you have any evidence for this? Looking through the post, and the author's other blog post titles, there is very little mention of AI or Claude.

Instead of throwing labels at the author, it's much more worthwhile to discuss their key argument about the challenges of developing native apps.