Comment by wewewedxfgdf
6 hours ago
Why would they write this in electron instead of something closer to the metal I thought this is the whole point of AI.
6 hours ago
Why would they write this in electron instead of something closer to the metal I thought this is the whole point of AI.
I made something similar using Tauri but there were visual inconsistencies between platforms thanks to webkit. At the time I remember thinking I wish I had used electron to buy cross platform parity.
And I experimented with gpui from zed, that was even harder to work with.
Of course they could chase performance, but ultimately time to market is the #1 factor right now, and coding agents still aren't good enough to just immediately realize an entire GPUI app from scratch with nothing more than a figma design. Still requires a ton of oversight.
It's built on OWL, which is their own Chromium integration. It's not electron.
Seems pretty solid for Mac, but idk about Windows and Linux.
https://openai.com/index/building-chatgpt-atlas/
Because electron gets shit done? Aside the memory usage, electron/browser based applications of any complexity tend to be better and develop a lot faster.
Users don’t like shit, though.
More testing you still need good engineers for every native platform if you go native. We all know that AI in the hands of incompetent people is bad.