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fron

> Desktop apps are supposed to be: native code

That excludes every single .NET application.

> well integrated in the OS

Don't even know what you mean by this.

> still working when the net is down

Not necessarily, a "native" app for Signal still wouldn't work if the net was down.

> and using system widgets and OS look&feel

I guess that excludes pretty much anything built with Qt.

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Well call me picky, but I find electron apps to be super wasteful and gobbling up memory like there's no tomorrow.

Sure I can understand the reasons behind it, it's JavaScript, programmers for that are abundant, is multi platform because web, but still. If you look at the functionality offered versus the resources used it's just ridiculous.

I'd like to see a graph of code/memory used vs unused in such binaries.

I completely agree that most of them are extreme memory hogs. I was just pointing out that the previous commenter's definition of a desktop application made almost no sense to me.

.NET is included with Windows and can't be removed.

Correct, but IL isn't 'native code'

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