Comment by piker
4 hours ago
Because it’s too complex and not worth the effort. Most users will not care about or perceive the benefit. If they delegate that responsibility to Google via Electron, they can focus on features/bug fixes that move the needle.
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?
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.
This isnt how a company which has "solved programming" would act.
Especially since users do prefer a native experience and having their RAM conserved.