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Native to Mac, Windows, or Linux? People use Electron because cross-platform desktop is not a solved problem unless you're willing to pay for QT. (I can name a dozen alternatives but they're frankly not as good as Electron, at least if you want Mac, Windows, And Linux.)

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The other option for a developer-targeted, cross-platform app is TUI/curses. I did a recent search to see if something like that exists and the closest I could find were command line todo apps.

I’ve wanted something Kanban-ish that could be project-specific and store its data locally within the project’s directory, ideally with git integration on a dedicated branch so that existing cloud options for git could be used for simple synching.

wxWidgets is pretty good, and beats the alternatives because it actually uses native widgets where possible. Lots of language bindings too.

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