> This article does nothing to address that.

This has been addressed many times now, and the article doesn't really need to re-address it.

Coding LLMs make managing cross-platform native apps significantly easier than it was in the past. The cost-reward analysis, where Electron and simile apps made sense because then you don't need to have an iOS expert, a macOS expert, etc, and having a bloated monstrosity of an app is an acceptable compromise, is simply no longer true.

I know there is some subset of HN that still thinks CoPilot 2024 is the state of the art and will declare this a foolish assertion that good developers like them disbelieve, but this is what all of the industry is moving to.

You know how much overhead testing 5 different apps still is?! (iOS, MacOS, Android, Windows, Linux)