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This is a python QT app (for now) we're lookin to move to electron however packaging this has been...interesting.

Please please please don’t move to electron and just build something native. Electron desktop software bloat is killing our machines.

Packaging a browser runtime for a chat app is a concern when the base amount of resources is far more than what we need. I'm more concerned about dev community + what runtime we'd prefer managing local browser in. I'm looking to Go frameworks right now (I'm naturally moving away from python to Go personally) if anyone has any suggestions

I would be so happy if the migration went from pyqt to c++ qt.

Hell, I’ll help with the conversion.

We will probably be open sourcing the frontend soon and you can hack on it all you want. :D

Please stick with Qt, I have ditched all non native and electron apps from my machine (the last replacement was VSCode to Zed)

Interesting can you lmk why you ditched all non native? We're discussing what decision to make on this now.

So the reason for no Linux support is non technical right? There are literally dozens of us!

An easy way to scrape webpages is something I’m interested in, I promise I’ll try it when it’s supported.

Oh please do report that on either the discord or email us. We had a few people request linux support; trying to log all the feedback. It's really just time limitations right now no prejudice :)

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