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there are few popular ones Slack, VSCode, Atom editor, etc...

Given the React Native for Windows talk at BUILD 2019, and their comparisation how it beats Electron, how Office and other teams are now adopting it, I still hope VSCode will eventually join the party.

They even did a nice graphic.

With UWP C++ being the reference point of 100%, UWP C# gets also 100% (thanks .NET Native), React Native 180% and Electron goes sky high above 700%!

https://youtu.be/TZnajQqqKV8?t=2919

This is how much everyone doing Electron apps is contributing to global warming, including VSCode team.

I'm surprised microsoft isn't pushing xamarin instead of React Native for cross platform.

They address that during BUILD.

Xamarin for .NET devs, React Native for C++ devs (think Qt/QML).

Seems like React Native is for Android, iOS and UWP (Windows), so no Mac or Linux, right?

Doesn't seem like a direct competitor with Electron then. Right?

There is ongoing support for React Native for Mac.

http://www.reactnative.com/build-os-x-desktop-apps-using-rea...

You got me there on GNU/Linux support, which doesn't mean it will not come later. They just need to decide which flavour of Linux desktop one is supposed to support in React Native.

You don't need to decide that much, since Qt works fine on GNOME and GTK works fine on KDE.

Not sure for Linux, but Mac has a fork of react native, and things are a bit slower now until we see what happens with UXKit.

Kind of hoping UXKit sticks a fork in RN, myself. (just my opinion)

React Native will work on Mac through project Catalyst, Apple's way of supporting code written against iOS's UIKit to run natively on Macs.

Some initial work was already done to make React Native compile for this target: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/25427

The OP mentioned closed source electron products where the source code can be safely protected

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