<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>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><parent_chain><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>nlitened</author><text>If I understand correctly, Telegram has native apps on all platforms, and they are super fast and slick.</text><parent_chain><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>