alt Hacker NewsWhy would they write this in electron instead of something closer to the metal I thought this is the whole point of AI.
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super256 • today at 4:34 PM
It's built on OWL, which is their own Chromium integration. It's not electron.
Seems pretty solid for Mac, but idk about Windows and Linux.
jampekka • today at 4:36 PM
Because electron gets shit done? Aside the memory usage, electron/browser based applications of any complexity tend to be better and develop a lot faster.
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justmedep • today at 4:36 PM
More testing you still need good engineers for every native platform if you go native. We all know that AI in the hands of incompetent people is bad.
I made something similar using Tauri but there were visual inconsistencies between platforms thanks to webkit. At the time I remember thinking I wish I had used electron to buy cross platform parity.
And I experimented with gpui from zed, that was even harder to work with.
Of course they could chase performance, but ultimately time to market is the #1 factor right now, and coding agents still aren't good enough to just immediately realize an entire GPUI app from scratch with nothing more than a figma design. Still requires a ton of oversight.