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		WD-42 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Claude an Electron app? Why does it need to be cross platform? If code was free there would be a native app for each platform using its respective toolkit, not QT.

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hacker_homie 5 days ago [–]

Well they wanted it to be cross plat because more users.

clearly the code isn’t free and writing for raw win32 is painful.

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