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Comment by lillesvin | Hacker News Reader

As much as I like cross-platform stuff, I also really like native UIs that follow native UX patterns, etc.

This ship has long, long sailed. If you don't spend your all your 24 hours as an office worker using Microsoft software, or you're locked in with a PC from 30 years ago, chances are almost every single UI you use will look differently, besides some microscopic agreements, like back button or a burger menu.

We just got used to it. There is some very vague thin layer of "commonly accepted patterns and symbols", but otherwise users just get through it.

In practice it's much harder to maintain a native app. I am noticing this with ChatGPT Mac app vs. Codex Mac app. ChatGPT on Mac is constantly behind compared the web ChatGPT while Codex is shipping features at a much higher velocity.

Also ChatGPT hangs and has more weird bugs compared to Codex.

Did they run out of tokens? Why don't they ask their agent to update the mac version?

The issues with the ChatGPT Mac app could also be reflective of the state of Swift UI considering not even Apple themselves can ship Swift UI apps that aren't janky.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/swiftui_only_makes_it_eas...

We spend a lot of time using different browsers. As far as I know there no web engine that use native OS UI for rendering.

Isn't all uses native OS UI widget? But since the brand need to be experienced the same across platform, it overrides the native rendering and use custom styles instead.

> As far as I know there no web engine that use native OS UI for rendering.

That sounds like a monster I would be afraid to touch.

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