| ▲ | mellosouls 3 hours ago |
| Mac only. Again. Apple is great but this is OpenAI devs showing their disconnect from the mainstream. Its complacent at best, contemptuous at worst. SamA or somebody really needs to give the product managers here a kick up the arse. |
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| ▲ | romainhuet 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Hi! Romain here, I work on Codex at OpenAI. We totally hear you. The team actually built the app in Electron specifically so we can support Windows and Linux as well. We shipped macOS first, but Windows is coming very soon. Appreciate you calling this out. Stay tuned! |
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| ▲ | anonymous908213 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Electron? Why can't Codex write, or at least translate, your application to native code instead of using a multi-hundred-mb browser wrapper to display text? Is this the future of software engineering Codex is promising me? | |
| ▲ | embirico 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Only thing i'd add re windows is it's taking us some time to get really solid sandboxing working on Windows, where there are fewer OS-level primitives for it. There's some more at https://developers.openai.com/codex/windows and we'd love help with testing and feedback to make it robust. | |
| ▲ | Oras 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Curios why electron not native? Wouldn’t native give better performance and more system integration? | | |
| ▲ | ForHackernews 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | When you're a trillion dollar company that burns more coal than Bangladesh in order to harness a hyperintelligent Machine God to serve your whims, you don't have the resources to maintain native clients for three separate targets. | |
| ▲ | rolymath 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | He literally says why electron in his comment that you are replying to | | |
| ▲ | Oras 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Going cross platform doesn’t sound the main reason (or I hope not). For a company that size, is it really hard to hire specialised small team?! It would be a good show case for their Codex too | | |
| ▲ | piskov an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | They presumably use codex to build this. LLMs output is non-deterministic. Harder to keep the same logic across. Would I love the, use swiftui on macos, wpf/winui om windows, whatever qt hell it is on linux? Sure But it is what it is. I am glad the codex-cli is rust and native. Because claude code and opencode are not: react, solidjs and what have you for a tree layer. — Then again, if codex builds codex, let it cook and port if AI is great. Otherwise, it’s claim chowder | |
| ▲ | ativzzz an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | It is hard because this product will likely be obsolete next year based on how quickly AI is changing and evolving. Speed is king when you're on the frontier | | |
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| ▲ | mellosouls an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Kudos to the OpenAI reps for responding to my comment and doing so politely. My ire was provoked by this following on from the Windows ChatGPT app that was just a container for the webpage compared to the earlier bells and whistles Mac app. Perceptions are built on those sorts of decisions. |
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| ▲ | tptacek 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you were going to release a product for developers as soon as it was ready for developers to try, such that you could only launch on one platform and then follow up later with the rest, macOS is the obvious choice. There's nothing contemptuous about that. |
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| ▲ | dkundel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Windows is almost ready. It's already running but we are solving a few more things before the release to make sure it works well. |
