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		gridlockd on July 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps ... What exactly makes a GUI "native", in your view? WebKit and MSHTML/Edge, they all render to the screen with native APIs. They're part of the operating system. Lots of native applications have used these for decades.

distances on July 8, 2020 [–]

For me "native" on desktop still means compiled to target architecture without any runtime VM/interpretation.

I agree this is getting more muddy on mobile as, say, "native Android" almost always now means bytecode using the platform SDKs.

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