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To be more specific about the value here:

Maintaining parity between two applications running on different GUI platforms is very expensive - much more than twice the effort of maintaining a single codebase.

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Not at all. Core logic can be shared. Single-platform frameworks usually have large libraries of well-tested controls. You can often get good performance, OS integration, and accessibility without really trying.

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