Electron apps are more native than Chrome apps. Electron apps integrate much better with macOS than do Chrome apps:
- With a Chrome app, I found that pressing Cmd-Q quits Chrome, not just the Chrome app.
- Electron apps have more useful menus than Chrome apps.
- Electron apps like Simplenote usually work offline, while some of the Chrome apps I've used don't.
... and so on.
I agree with you that it's still not 100% accurate to call them native apps, but trying to communicate shades of grey in a blog post risks confusing readers, even technical ones, who want to do whatever Postman does, not understand the finer points of Electron vs Chrome vs Cocoa apps.
I'll take clear communication over communication that's confusing because it's accurate in ways I don't care about.
- With a Chrome app, I found that pressing Cmd-Q quits Chrome, not just the Chrome app.
- Electron apps have more useful menus than Chrome apps.
- Electron apps like Simplenote usually work offline, while some of the Chrome apps I've used don't.
... and so on.
I agree with you that it's still not 100% accurate to call them native apps, but trying to communicate shades of grey in a blog post risks confusing readers, even technical ones, who want to do whatever Postman does, not understand the finer points of Electron vs Chrome vs Cocoa apps.
I'll take clear communication over communication that's confusing because it's accurate in ways I don't care about.