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I think it's really disappointing that so many of the commenters here have chosen to nitpick on the author's choice of the word native and then debating whether it was a good idea for them to use Electron. How about we all try out the app for a few days and the come report back about our experience?

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It is not really nitpicking when most Electron apps use tens to hundreds of megabytes of memory. If all the utility apps that I use regularly switched to electron, I would need an order of magnitude more RAM.

Moreover, these applications are then completely 'unnative' in the sense that the widgets do not look native on my OS, the widget behaviour is not native to my OS, the usual keyboard shortcuts are broken, etc.

Electron apps are the Java Swing applications of this decennium.

I am pretty surprised how some commenters here are using this argument. Of course, EVERY utility app should NOT be written in Electron.

I have commented on the UI and keyboard shortcuts elsewhere. These are easily doable and I believe libraries to pre-package and solve this exist already.

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