Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native

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.

    • codeinabox@programming.devOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      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.

        • codeinabox@programming.devOPEnglish
          6·
          8 days ago

          I think you’re misconstruing the author’s argument, at no point does the author imply that Claude knows best, or that Electron apps are better. Their closing argument is certainly not an endorsement for Electron or AI slop.

          Don’t get me wrong: writing this brings me no joy. I don’t think web is a solution either. I just remember good times when native did a better-than-average job, and we were all better for using it, and it saddens me that these times have passed.

          I just don’t think that kidding ourselves that the only problem with software is Electron and it all will be butterflies and unicorns once we rewrite Slack in SwiftUI is not productive. The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.

        • Life is Tetris@leminal.space
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          7 days ago

          Also, which native UIs do people like coding up? Most UI toolkits have JS bindings, don’t they? So only HTML/CSS is the bad fit?

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      I think the argument is full code sharing with web apps. Does desktop app not use crossplatform terminal APIs, instead of JS?