Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦Mar 4
Niki Tonsky

I was meaning to write a reply to “Why is Claude an Electron App?” for a few days. Today is that day:

https://tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-native/

Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native

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

tonsky.me
Mar 3 at 3:42pmWeb
Show threadMatt LaceyMar 3
@nikitonsky We've ended up where Java always intended to go, except that we've ended up with a worse solution than Java.
Show threadswannodetteMar 3
@nikitonsky the move away from native apps seems mostly a big corp / big corp fan fiction software problem?
Show threadNiki TonskyMar 3
@swannodette maybe? I can’t think of small Electron apps off the top of my head
Show threadGNU/KnoppersMar 4
@nikitonsky @swannodette idk BalenaEtcher
Show threadKaitoMar 3
@nikitonsky I still believe it could have been just a VS Code extension, but some birds told me it's because of VC money
Show threadchfkch  Mar 3
@nikitonsky
But nobody ever asks "How is Claude?"
Show threadSiilwynMar 3

@nikitonsky honestly been enjoying core GNOME apps and their circle apps: https://apps.gnome.org/#circle

But yes most native apps aren't better than webapps.

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Show threadLesley LaiMar 4
@nikitonsky Hard agree last setence:
> The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack
Show threadHarshad SharmaMar 4
@nikitonsky agree that Web APIs are plenty good and native APIs are cumbersome. And that's exactly where I have found LLMs useful to build personal apps in Kotlin for Android. I now have three homebrew apps running on my phone.