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.

  • NostraDavid@programming.dev
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    12 hours ago

    Codex is written in Rust, as it should be. It even has readline integration, so you can do ctrl-j to insert a newline! :D

    edit: ah dangit, this is about the desktop app. Nevermind.