Likewise OpenAIs browser is still only available on macOS, four months after launch, despite being built on a mature browser engine which already runs on everything under the sun. Seems like low-hanging fruit, and yet...
Why is Claude an Electron app?
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Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#22The Claude app is one giant garbanzo bean. I uninstalled it and pinned the web app to my dock instead.
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#23Call them out, call them out. Why isn't Claude a native Windows x64 app if code is free?
Seriously, they claim to be able to make a C compiler but they can't make a TUI without using javascript? It's beyond pathetic.
To be fair in that respect, Claude code does have a native rust implementation you can use.
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#24> For now, Electron still makes sense
A few years ago maybe. Tauri makes better sense for this use case today - like Electron but with system webviews, so at least doesn't bloat your system with extra copies of Chrome. And strongly encourages Rust for the application core over JS/Node.
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#25Code isn’t free when you have to review and QA it
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#26Because Anthropic and the rest of them are lying to you about the sophistication of these tools.
The fact that claude code is a still buggy mess is a testament to the quality of the dream they're trying to sell.
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#27Write everything in C.
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#28Because when a service is running at a loss the investors want their money to be spent efficiently.
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#29Electron isn't that bad. Apps like VSCode and Obsidian are among the highest quality and most performant apps I have installed. The Claude app's problem is not electron; its that it just sucks, bad. Stop blaming problems on nativeness.
Maybe Electron isn’t that bad. Maybe there are some great Electron apps. But there’s a big chunk that went unsaid: Most Electron apps suck. Does correlation here imply causation? Maybe not, but holy fuck isn’t it frustrating to be a user of Electron apps.
Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?
#30Electron isn't that bad. Apps like VSCode and Obsidian are among the highest quality and most performant apps I have installed. The Claude app's problem is not electron; its that it just sucks, bad. Stop blaming problems on nativeness.
I think you’re missing the point a little friendo, it’s not that electron is bad it’s that electron itself is an abstraction for cross platform support. If code can be generated for free then the question is why do we need this to begin with why can’t Claude write it in win32, SwiftUI, and gtk?
The answer of course is that it can’t do it and maintain compatibility between all three well enough as it’s high effort and each has its own idiosyncrasies.