>Why is Claude an Electron App?
>If code is free, why aren’t all apps native?
>
>The state of coding agents can be summed up by this fact
>
> Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app.
This is actually... a very nice question
https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/21/why-is-claude-an-electron-app.html