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I'm interested in the advent of web tech as new x-platform env for desktop apps. But: Atom can't keep up with my typing. B/c of web tech?

I’m pretty concerned about the accessibility, perf, UI design direction, and cross-app interaction issues this implies :(

Yeah, ditto on all counts. I'm willing to make some tradeoffs if it means more "native" apps, but more work to do.

Web browsers are great at accessibility and perf, and it is far easier to design custom UIs in HTML than Cocoa

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I… haven't seen much evidence that web browsers are great at either accessibility or perf, relative to e.g. Cocoa.

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@paulcbetts …and Cocoa is pretty terrible at perf relative to common sense. So that SHOULD’VE been an easy comparison to win

@paulcbetts I think it's more that it makes complex solutions to common perf problems easy (c.f. NSTextLayout, UITableView).

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