But in 2026, agentic coding practices substantially strengthen the argument for cross-platform desktop apps. Putting aside that the models are stronger at TypeScript than they are at Swift, teams’ feature velocity is increasing. The bottleneck is increasingly verifying the resulting product experiences.

I would argue that having agentic teams strengths the argument for native apps using shared core business logic libraries rather than cross platform run anywhere apps. If the cost of code is nearly zero, the overhead on separate platforms is vastly less. Validation, even for electron, has to be done on each platform. You can’t just run it in Windows and think “yep everything looks great, ship it” So you need platform-specific validation, and writing platform code itself is zero marginal cost. Why wouldn’t you opt in for a better app and experiences.