Ask HN: Do Windows and OS X each have their own React like rendering engines?

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Do Windows, MacOS and Linux each have their own React like rendering engines to render the GUI apps?

It seems each OS would need to have a rendering engine to render the GUI apps? Are these engines dataflow rendering engines like React?

Kind of. And there's many over the history of thos operating system as they evolved. Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_widget_toolkits#OS_dep...

Does it make sense to have a common rendering engine library that is common to both browsers and GUI desktops?

So something like a react rendering engine but the type of nodes change when you use it in different environments:

1. Using it on desktop for GUI: The nodes are like the native GUI elements for that OS

2. Using it on the web: the nodes are whatever HTML DOM nodes that have to be rendered