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That just makes the platform native, which doesn't say anything at all. Presumably the app itself is still written in javascript, so its not native at all - its just bundling its own (native) copy of chrome.

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So are you saying anything with a runtime is not native, even if embedded in an executable? Is a go app native?

Does a go app use the native toolkit?

QT isn't native either.

Actually, Qt (as in Qt Widgets) is a peculiar case. Qt draws its own widgets, but on some platforms uses native theming APIs to draw widgets (e.g. HITheme in macOS[1]). Though they are apparently experimenting with native widgets now [2].

So I'd say Qt is more native than e.g. Electron, but it is definitely not completely native. Except on Linux of course.

[1] http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qmacstyle.html#details

[2] http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/02/06/native-look-feel/

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