I tried writing a native Windows app using WinUI 3.

I wasted a day on trying to get some PNGs to render correctly, but no matter the config I used, the colors came out wrongly oversaturated.

I used Tauri with a WebView, and the app was rendering the images perfectly fine. On top of that the UI looked much better, and I was done in half the time I spend trying to fix the rendering issue in WinUI 3.

Never again will I go native.

To be fair WinUI3 is particularly bad. If you're forced to install a 100MB runtime anyway, might as well make that runtime be a browser.

Since Tauri uses the system's WebView, it shouldn't be that big. The docs say a minimal app could be 600 KB.

Yeah, Tauri is better in that regard. My point is if the comparison is with WinUI, you might as well use Electron.

Native app dev is covered in red tape and puts you at the mercy of Apple etc. It's unfortunate that things are so inefficient now, but competition is good, and native platforms can get good.

If Zed can make it, even with completely new stack, why not Google?

What are all this LLMs for when everything is just fork of electron app? Does not look like good marketing.

I'm not ignoring this question, I'm just not familiar with Zed and don't know how native it feels. Maybe Vscode is quicker to modify in the future as needed (esp if Google already uses it), or Antigravity is better in ways than Zed, or Zed just has a more skilled team than Google.

Also I'm used to vim and sensitive to lag, so I always hated vscode, but seems a lot of people don't notice or something. And when you're using AI for 90% of the loc, it matters less.

> Native app dev is covered in red tape and puts you at the mercy of Apple etc.

... Aren't we talking about a programming IDE here? When did mobile become anything like the primary market for that? Are people expected to sit around for hours inputting symbols with an OSK?

Mac. It's a pain to target, and I don't mean cause of the code signing.