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You've expressed my exact sentiment. This really should be platform agnostic.

Elsewhere the (singlehanded) author explains his reliance upon Mac frameworks and his lack of resources necessary to develop on other platforms. I believe every tradesman has a right to choose his preferred tools and platforms to support.

While I agree that, "every tradesman has a right to choose his preferred tools and platforms to support," that attitude is hard kept if you're selling closed source software for a platform with only five percent market share.

Quite amusingly, about four or five days ago a similar program (Tad, ”a tabular data viewer”) was presented on HackerNews, and if I remember correctly the top-ranking comment was a complaint about it being an Electron app. Ironically it seems nigh impossible to satisfy both camps.

There are a myriad of options available to gain platform agnosticism and nowhere did I, or even the original commentator, state that Electron was the only viable path.

Ironically, you should read the comments from your own example as they descend into debate regarding these very options:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453252

And what's really amusing is that you've now missed this point twice in a two day period.

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