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Does anyone know how committed Sketch is to desktop? Do you think they would do something like this?

It's not just their commitment to Desktop, but their commitment specifically to not move off MacOS where they have stated that they "will not consider supporting Sketch" on Windows/Linux[0]

https://www.sketchapp.com/support/requirements/other-platfor...

Now that they have taken venture money I suspect this will change.

I'm anticipating more corporate enterprise-y things (like Windows support) and workflows are in their pipeline.

That we allowed ourselves as a species, for so long, to limit the accessibility of excellent tools to the requirement of a specific operating system or technology, is understandable for so many technical and political reasons, but still so incredibly sad to me.

Ok, so I can see someone doesn't agree with my comment due to the downvote. But would you be willing to share your opinion as to why?

For example, how much more valuable would Sketch be as a company and to society if it were available on more platforms than just Mac OS?

But when a solution like Electron comes along, it's roundly denounced by a large number of the very people who stand to benefit from cross-platform applications.

Meh. I can differentiate. I hate the UX of most Electron apps, but like that they're available on Linux.

Though I do think the server-side doesn't need to be shipped. I have most of my web apps as simple "Web clips", which are basically bookmarks that open in a window.

Because it’s not a very good solution. We can and should do better, but that won’t happen if we throw in the towel and accept the lowest common denominator mediocrity that Electron represents.

That's a strawman. "Spawning a Chromium instance for each application" is an easy but far from optimal solution.

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