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		stephenr on July 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Theia – One IDE for Desktop and Cloud JetBrains apps look & behave mostly native on macOS. There are some discrepancies, but they're pretty close. Building the entire UI in a webview means you're never going to get platform integration. No standard menu bar, no services integration, no remapping menu shortcut keys, no automatic "find command" in the Help menu. Edit: s/look/look & behave/

hexa00 on July 3, 2017 [–]

That's not entierly true since Electron provides native elements like menus for example. We can hope Electron will get better at a native experience and can contribute to that too. See https://electron.atom.io/docs/tutorial/desktop-environment-i...

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