Curios why electron not native?

Wouldn’t native give better performance and more system integration?

ForHackernews 4 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.

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rolymath 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He literally says why electron in his comment that you are replying to

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Oras 4 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

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piskov 3 hours 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 to see 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.

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Then again, if codex builds codex, let it cook and port if AI is great. Otherwise, it’s claim chowder

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ativzzz 3 hours 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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