What Nikita Prokopov thinks about developer tools

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1. 3 Mar 2026

   Our readingNative OS APIs are worse to develop against than web APIs, and platform vendors discourage native app development.

   Their wordsNative APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.

   ↗Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost nativetonsky.me 1st of 3 in this piece