Idle wondering: are there any venture-backed companies founded in the last ten years shipping a substantial native, AppKit-based macOS app?
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The future is web-SaaSy it seems. Perhaps due to reach? A website can be accessed anywhere, a platform specific app requires choosing a platform. Phones seem to change this equation because probably it's hard for developers to do some things via websites (like clubhouse)
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I think platform heterogeneity is the driving factor here, rather than SaaS-ification. A lot of SaaS is almost exclusively used from desktop clients (e.g. Slack), but those clients are still non-native because it's too expensive to support all the relevant platforms.
Why are people solving the platform problem at runtime (via electron with all it's bloat) rather than at compile time?
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Because people have forgotten how to write code other than react maybe?
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JavaScript ended up being the write-once, run-anywhere language. And so it turned out to be the true successor to Java after all!
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