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> All please note. Electron is not a native app.

Electron is an extremely heavyweight native app frsmework, not a native app, but Electron apps are (bloated, sure) native apps.

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Native means it uses the os rendering engine and widgets. Electron is not that. I don't know when web devs decided they could put a website in a box and call it native, but it's not very nice.

By that logic, GTK/Qt, basically any cross platform GUI library etc. is not 'native'.

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