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Hi, Felix here - I'm responsible for said Electron app, including Claude Code Desktop and Claude Cowork.

All technology choices are about trade-offs, and while our desktop app does actually include a decent amount of Rust, Swift, and Go, but I understand the question - it comes up a lot. Why use web technologies at all? And why ship your own engine? I've written a long-form version of answers to those questions here: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/why-electron

To us, Electron is just a tool. We co-maintain it with a bunch of excellent other people but we're not precious about it - we might choose something different in the future.

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Let’s ignore electron. Your app has many UI/UX and performance flaws.

If as your CEO says “coding is largely solved”, why is this the case?

Or is your CEO wrong and coding is not largely solved?

What kind of project lead is going to answer for their CEO?

Not a normal one but also a normal project lead doesn’t get on HN and start publicly answering questions.

If you’re gonna start speaking for and defending your company though and your company CEO has made asinine statements that are related, I’m gonna ask.

APP BAD!

If coding SOLVED HOW COME APP BAD.

I mean a software ide should be pretty low on the totem pole of software complexity.

Edit: (1) because most of the complexity lies in the tool chains that are integrated, like compilers and linters, and (2) because there’s much more complex software out there, mostly at the intersection of engineering domains, to name a few: ballistic guidance systems, IoT and networking, predictive maintenance systems, closed-loop process optimization systems, SLAM robotics

If it’s so simple, where is yours?

I’m not the one going on national news implying that everyone can fire their software engineers over the next couple of years lol

I mean if your coding machine can’t solve known issues with your app then coding isn’t solved is it.

If artificial intelligence exceeded the ability of hacker news users to bitch about software, that would truly be AGI.

I guess you can complain about HN users complaining about software if you want to. But that doesn’t change the fact that there are objective flaws with this particularly piece of software that shouldn’t exist if the company building it has truly “solved code”.

this compiles on my machine

The point is exactly that, by having a code that's completely AI driven would eliminate all trade offs that could lead you to electron.

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