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seems like every “desktop app” launched on HN is electron

Perhaps because it is easy to start with. We do realize the shortcomings. In our v3, we are rethinking this.

It‘s just not a good business move to invest a huge amount lf time to create complex UI in the native frameworks if electron is way easier.

Dont hate on electron, criticize the existing native solutions for making it way harder.

Just as an example: in WPF it takes a significant amount of knowledge and work to fully customize a buttons appearance while its a basic task in CSS

That is exactly the reason we have started with Electron. You got it right. Thank you.

> Dont hate on electron

> takes a significant amount of knowledge and work to fully customize a buttons appearance

I think it might help you to understand a significant part of the hate comes from this frankly pathological focus on how your application looks precisely instead of on an in-depth focus on what it is supposed to do. You can design and build a perfectly acceptable actually native application that looks nice if you let go of the need to have three extra pixels of horizontal spacing around the text of your buttons.

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