<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jon-wood</author><text>If only Microsoft had a app development framework designed to allow developing apps for multiple mobile + desktop platforms with as much shared code as possible.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dotnet.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;xamarin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dotnet.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;xamarin&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>slashdev</author><text>Native apps means essentially building at least 5 distinct apps: windows, mac, iOS, linux, android. What a mess to work with and maintain.&lt;p&gt;We already have cross-platfrom UI engines called browsers and they&amp;#x27;re very advanced and reasonably pleasant to work with these days. If you bundle the browser (electron) then you don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about differences between browsers. So electron makes plenty of sense to developers, even although it&amp;#x27;s an egregious resource hog.</text></item><item><author>richardstephens</author><text>Drop Electron.... for Edge Webview2.  I mean, okay sure, half the memory is an improvement. But what is going on in the chat industry that everyone&amp;#x27;s converged on Electron? You&amp;#x27;d think Microsoft of all companies would be able to figure out how to build native apps. If I want a chat service with native apps, it seems like my only option is IRC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2</title><url>https://tomtalks.blog/2021/06/microsoft-teams-2-0-will-use-half-the-memory-dropping-electron-for-edge-webview2/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>richardstephens</author><text>I see where you&amp;#x27;re coming from, but Microsoft already builds an entire office sweet as native apps across 4 of the 5 platforms you enumerated.</text><parent_chain><item><author>slashdev</author><text>Native apps means essentially building at least 5 distinct apps: windows, mac, iOS, linux, android. What a mess to work with and maintain.&lt;p&gt;We already have cross-platfrom UI engines called browsers and they&amp;#x27;re very advanced and reasonably pleasant to work with these days. If you bundle the browser (electron) then you don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about differences between browsers. So electron makes plenty of sense to developers, even although it&amp;#x27;s an egregious resource hog.</text></item><item><author>richardstephens</author><text>Drop Electron.... for Edge Webview2.  I mean, okay sure, half the memory is an improvement. But what is going on in the chat industry that everyone&amp;#x27;s converged on Electron? You&amp;#x27;d think Microsoft of all companies would be able to figure out how to build native apps. If I want a chat service with native apps, it seems like my only option is IRC.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2</title><url>https://tomtalks.blog/2021/06/microsoft-teams-2-0-will-use-half-the-memory-dropping-electron-for-edge-webview2/</url></story>