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umbrellasunon Ask HN: What is better for a dev tool? Native Desktop App, or Rich Web App?

I personally excluded Electron-based solutions after doing some MVPs — higher learning curve for me, unnecessary complication of the architecture, and performance.

When I say Web App, I am currently considering React/Vue-based dashboard apps that connect to the API service running as a daemon (or deployed). This daemon service is responsible for exposing all management operations via the API.

umbrellasunon Ask HN: What is better for a dev tool? Native Desktop App, or Rich Web App?

Mac, Linux, Windows. As a desktop framework, I am considering Java-based JavaFX or compiled alternatives like Go (Fyne). The big disadvantage of Go/Rust-based solutions is they have poor GUI development support (like scene builder in JavaFX, or a rich set of components).