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Native UIs are becoming an anachronism pretty fast. Free-form web and electron based apps are becoming the norm and it won't be to long before people see native UI apps as some sort of weird throwback.

IE. IMO that ship has sailed and using lower level/cross platform graphics stacks make a lot more sense these days.

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Fast native running binaries will never be anachronistic

I'm not saying they won't still be around. They will just use lower level graphics libraries and be more free form. The days of the 'native' GUI widgets are over.

you might be right, even though I find it very depressing. Native UIs using stock elements in simple ways tends to create competent interfaces. Web and electron apps are often confusing bespoke messes.

Native-ish interfaces are still pretty prevalent on mobile though.

"cross platform graphics stacks make a lot more sense"

Oh how they laughed when Sun tried this with Java some 25 years ago...

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