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The comment I was responding to was:

> Yeah, but until Electron and they like, we seldom shipped desktop apps in anything than C, C++, Delphi etc even after all those decades.

So things aren't any different than before. We've just replaced non C/C++ abstractions that were written by the platform-owner company to non C/C++ abstractions that are written by open source projects.

This seems pretty much in line with the general industry trend towards the adoption of open-source software.



>So things aren't any different than before. We've just replaced non C/C++ abstractions that were written by the platform-owner company to non C/C++ abstractions that are written by open source projects.

This statement doesn't even parse.




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