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This isnt how a company which has "solved programming" would act.

Especially since users do prefer a native experience and having their RAM conserved.

This is exactly how a company would act when they notice millions of people downloading and using their ram-hungry electron app. There is just no reason to not act this way.

Also the part people forget is the significant coordination cost of having multiple teams work on multiple native codebases.

I hate Electron apps with a passion, but I can understand why the AI companies are using it.

What effort ? I’ve started seeing this attitude more and more. We had a thing that took a week to do before. Now it takes a morning. So we refuse to spend half a day polishing it because it’s too annoying.

Once the initial port is done, keeping platforms in sync is fast. Not to mention that a harness that would automate this would be valuable.

I run codex on an old rpi, it eats 190M of ram for what essentially is a telnet client.

You're mistaken if you think it has ever taken a week to port (and support) an application to native primitives.

?? Bun rewrite?