Btw if you want to experiment with a Windows implementation I would be very happy to work with you on PRing that in! Could be a good small scale experiment to see how a larger project would work...
The main hurdle is likely the native modules because I tried to use as many native features as possible. So just need Windows versions of them. Claude mostly made the mac ones so I assume it'll be fairly easy 😅
Then of course some UI changes for platform differences...
Great! It probably won't be a high priority for me myself, short term. I'll focus on fixing any bugs that come up and building out the core feature set. But if a lot of people want a Windows version I'll prioritize it. And if you want to help do the Windows work I'll prioritize assisting you :)
Definitely let's chat, it's something I'm interested in exploring to progress desktop RN. Can't say I'll be great at it at first but having a destination will be a great start
Amusingly I noted elsewhere I actually started a Photos project roughly the same time as Jay but ended up using SDL2 w WSL2 as the experience getting started with RN 4 Windows was so poor (4 hours, still didn't get it even compiling, admittedly, I'm a complete Windows dev newbie)
Pretty much everything that could go wrong, went wrong during the installation flow. Meanwhile WSL2 w SDL2 Just Works in '25 which is kind of nuts as an long term Unix user (Linux, then OS X, Linux).
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Then of course some UI changes for platform differences...