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by zacksiri5 hours ago |
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upvoteby yoz-y3 hours ago|
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I am honestly _astonished_ that the current crop of agents are not all written natively for every platform.

I tried porting a moderately complex workout app that I’ve built over years (and which includes a whole agentic loop) from web to iOS native. It took me a couple of evenings.

There is now no excuse to not offer a native experience for every supported platform when you are a bigger company.

Make one of the platforms using good coding practices. Vibe code the others from the source using a proper test battery.

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upvoteby piker3 hours ago|
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Because it’s too complex and not worth the effort. Most users will not care about or perceive the benefit. If they delegate that responsibility to Google via Electron, they can focus on features/bug fixes that move the needle.
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upvoteby yoz-y2 hours ago|
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What effort ? I’ve started seeing this attitude more and more. We had a thing that took a week to do before. Now it takes a morning. So we refuse to spend half a day polishing it because it’s too annoying.

Once the initial port is done, keeping platforms in sync is fast. Not to mention that a harness that would automate this would be valuable.

I run codex on an old rpi, it eats 190M of ram for what essentially is a telnet client.

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upvoteby piker2 hours ago|
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You're mistaken if you think it has ever taken a week to port (and support) an application to native primitives.
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upvoteby pydry1 hours ago|
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This isnt how a company which has "solved programming" would act.

Especially since users do prefer a native experience and having their RAM conserved.

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upvoteby testdelacc12 hours ago|
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I have a question about web to iOS native. How do you distribute that app? I’m assuming you’re paying $99 yearly to distribute through the App Store? Is this app meant just for you or for anyone to find?

Reason I’m asking is because I’d like to make native iOS apps just for myself rather than progressive web apps. But I haven’t understood the best way to distribute.

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upvoteby kolinko1 hours ago|
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If just for yourself, get an Apple Dev account and use TestFlight
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upvoteby testdelacc11 hours ago|
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Do I need to upload a new build of the app every 90 days? I’d prefer the app to just work forever without thinking about it.
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upvoteby musically_ut1 hours ago|
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