Every single app that I use, I try and make sure it is native. I shun electron apps at all cost. It's because people who put in effort to use the native APIs put in a lot more effort in the app in general based on my anecdotal evidence. It is also more performant and smaller in size, things that I cherish. It also pays homage to limits and striving to come up with new ways of overcoming them, which hackers would have…
It is true that there is a a correlation between lower level programming and better programming in general. You probably won't see someone writing asm but creating crazy O^2 algorithms that run on every frame with memory allocations that run in the inner loop. At the same time a native win32 program can pack significant functionality into a 20KB exe. Put these together and you have a program where everything is insta…
Re: Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?
#141Not sure that I entirely agree there: I could easily imagine someone writing too close to the metal to stick to list iteration where a hash would be better and so on, unless it's prohibitively slower, whereas someone slightly higher would freely choose whatever they feel appropriate for the situation. They might often guess wrong and take a structure that is overkill for the typical dataset but the penalty for that will be negligible compared to the one paid for using a badly scaling structure on way too much data.