Yawn the 90/10 excuse again and 'Shipping it everywhere' is a blatant lie there is still no Linux release. Looks like you are talking about Claude Code as Claude. Claude would be the Desktop app...
Or: Why can't I log in to Claude on my laptop? It opens a browser with an indefinite spinner, and when I click "Login" on the website, it forwards me to register instead. Not really selling it as the future of coding if their fundamentals are this screwed up!
Electron isn't that bad. Apps like VSCode and Obsidian are among the highest quality and most performant apps I have installed. The Claude app's problem is not electron; its that it just sucks, bad. Stop blaming problems on nativeness.
Likewise OpenAIs browser is still only available on macOS, four months after launch, despite being built on a mature browser engine which already runs on everything under the sun. Seems like low-hanging fruit, and yet...
A few years ago maybe. Tauri makes better sense for this use case today - like Electron but with system webviews, so at least doesn't bloat your system with extra copies of Chrome. And strongly encourages Rust for the application core over JS/Node.
I can see it in my team. We've all been using Claude a lot for the last 6 months. It's hard to measure the impact, but I can tell our systems are as buggy as ever. AI isn't a silver bullet.
But nobody says code is free(?). Certainly not Claude, that experimental compiler costs $20K to build. That openclaw author admitted in Lex Fridman talk that he spends $10k's on tokens each month.
If author tried native macOS development with agent for an hour, they wouldn’t know where to begin explaining how different is agentic web development from native. It was better year ago, you could actually get to build a native app.
Now all models over-think everything, they do things they like and igniter hard constraints. They picked all that in training. All these behaviours, hiding mistakes, shameful silence, going “woke” and doing what they think should be done despite your wishes.
All this is meliorated in web development, but for native it made it a lot worse.
And visual testing, compare in-browser easy automated ride with retest-it-yourself for 50th time.
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We should refuse to accept coding agents until they have fully replaced chromium. By that point, the world will see that our reticence was wisdom.
A few years ago maybe. Tauri makes better sense for this use case today - like Electron but with system webviews, so at least doesn't bloat your system with extra copies of Chrome. And strongly encourages Rust for the application core over JS/Node.
The fact that claude code is a still buggy mess is a testament to the quality of the dream they're trying to sell.
I can see it in my team. We've all been using Claude a lot for the last 6 months. It's hard to measure the impact, but I can tell our systems are as buggy as ever. AI isn't a silver bullet.