Every operating system contributed to the bloat. Windows has Win32, OS X has Carbon / Cocoa, Linux has X11 and various widget libs that sit on top of it. So it has been a perennial nut to crack to make cross platform widgets - wxWidgets, QT, SWT/JWT/Swing on Java, XMLShell (Firefox), Electron, GTK/GTK#, winelib etc.
Throw mobile platforms into the mix and it’s an unholy mess. Lowest common denominator is HTML and so the likes of Electron “wins” even though it’s bloated and slow.
Yeah, not because they saw a way to develop for Win/Mac/Linux/Android/IOS all at the same time and went yeah, we’d take some of that.
Naw, They REALLY wanted to dip their toes in that 2013 extra 1% of traffic pool.
Lame attempt at ragebait.
Eithet ignorant or troling
I thought it was comendy 😅
Okay, how does this dude explain native Linux apps?
Aren’t Qt and GTK cross platform? I have Dolphin and Kate running on my Windows work laptop.
As is wxWidgets and others.
What kind of shit for brains asshole is still defending Windows in 2025?
And what kind of slavering mouth-breathing teoglodyte doesn’t understand that Hannah Montana Linux negates all of these issues, will suck your dixk without hesitation, and lets you read news from four days from now.
Lololol
Abstraction layers? In MY messy pile of spaghetti ass code!?
You wouldn’t understand it, it’s more of a messy pile of lasagna ass-code situation.
It’s more likely than you think.
The real reason is it’s a pain in the ass to deploy software in Windows. It’s not like you can easily set up a server and put some packages on and have it just automatically apt update to that. Sure there’s some “Enterprise” servers you could set up (and pay license fees for) that might work somewhat like that, but it’s easier to just make it a web app and deploy to an internet webserver.
For product distribution, you need someone download an .exe, hope a virus scanner won’t block it, maybe pay microsoft to sign it or whatever, hope the user has a compatible version of windows, and maybe they can get some working software. But then you have to make some mechanism to handle updates and hopefully that doesn’t get blocked by some security software. So it’s easier to make your software a web application.
Also putting out windows native applications means you might not be able to enshittify it later since people could continue to use the old version forever. It’s weird to assume enshittification happens accidentally, but it’s actually what some companies want to do their software because $$$. They want applications they can enshitty later, they don’t make applications that may work on linux and whoopsie it just somehow got enshittified because of that… somehow.
But many times it’s just best solution. If an application doesn’t need access to anything on my system, I’d rather it be a web app. App does the thing I need, and when I’m done, I close the tab and we’re done. Why install more software on my system if I don’t need to?
Someone obviously missed their nap and is having a tantrum.
Meanwhile Microsoft makes the start menu with React
Well, at least it’s React Native, seemingly. Also from what I’ve heard it’s only one section like rendering results from the web or some shit like that.
I try not to let considerations get in the way of doing great work.
“I am a react developer”
I thought we are supposed to be language-agnostic after 3rd project.
No way that’s real. Tell me it’s not real
That is the most punchable response I’ve seen in a while.
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I feel like that reply would have fit better one comment level higher.
This is what’s wrong. Distilled.
Since when has competition ever spurred innovation? Pff
Tell me you have no idea how software development works without saying it…
Tbh, it’s not entirely wrong, which is the reason why it works so well as rage bait.
It’s really not about Linux, but it is about supporting anything and everything out there with a single app. Use Electron and you can have the same app running on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, your car, your game console, your smart fridge and in a website.
Of course the result sucks, but if you can cut development effort into a fraction while also supporting systems that you would have never supported otherwise, that’s not a bad deal for businesses.
I read it twice and it felt like word salad.
He’s a magician, because reading this, I aged 10 years and grew a metastatic tumor.
