On: Pulsar: A Community Effort to Revive the Atom Text Editor

[CharlesW]

> Because they cornered themselves into a niche by using an Apple-only stack.

HN: We demand native IDEs.

Panic: Here's a native IDE that uses platform APIs for the most native look and feel possible.

HN: That's too native, idiots.

[packetlost → CharlesW]

"Cross-platform" is attached to those statements 90% of the time, including this time, but go on.

[nsonha → CharlesW]

who says you have to pick between native and cross-platform? The term "native" is confusing because some people use it to mean native performance (QT), and some people use it to mean native UI.