Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native @ tonsky.me

kept by eddie mar 04

Claude is an Electron app because native development no longer offers advantages in APIs, consistency, integration, or performance.

Native all the way, until you need text
Web views like Electron outperform native text frameworks (TextKit 2) for complex Markdown rendering, despite size overhead, due to resource investment and cross-platform convenience.
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Native all the way, until you need text
A veteran macOS developer finds that native Apple frameworks fail to support rich Markdown chat UIs, making Electron and WebKit more practical despite developer criticism.
also on Electron, #user-experience, #software-engineering, #developer-tools