Hi! Romain here, I work on Codex at OpenAI. We totally hear you. The team actual...

anonymous908213 · 2026-02-02T19:44:41 1770061481

Electron? Why can't Codex write, or at least translate, your application to native code instead of using a multi-hundred-mb browser wrapper to display text? Is this the future of software engineering Codex is promising me?

embirico · 2026-02-02T18:52:51 1770058371

Only thing i'd add re windows is it's taking us some time to get really solid sandboxing working on Windows, where there are fewer OS-level primitives for it. There's some more at https://developers.openai.com/codex/windows and we'd love help with testing and feedback to make it robust.

Oras · 2026-02-02T18:54:23 1770058463

Curios why electron not native?

Wouldn’t native give better performance and more system integration?

ForHackernews · 2026-02-02T19:02:06 1770058926

When you're a trillion dollar company that burns more coal than Bangladesh in order to harness a hyperintelligent Machine God to serve your whims, you don't have the resources to maintain native clients for three separate targets.

rolymath · 2026-02-02T19:03:32 1770059012

He literally says why electron in his comment that you are replying to

Oras · 2026-02-02T19:08:10 1770059290

Going cross platform doesn’t sound the main reason (or I hope not). For a company that size, is it really hard to hire specialised small team?! It would be a good show case for their Codex too

ativzzz · 2026-02-02T20:45:57 1770065157

It is hard because this product will likely be obsolete next year based on how quickly AI is changing and evolving. Speed is king when you're on the frontier

pu_pe · 2026-02-03T08:39:23 1770107963

Yes, exactly. "Just hire a small team and build native apps for another OS" is the recipe for taking a year to deliver instead of a month

piskov · 2026-02-02T20:33:58 1770064438

They presumably use codex to build this. LLMs output is non-deterministic. Harder to keep the same logic across.

Would I love to see swiftui on macos, wpf/winui om windows, whatever qt hell it is on linux? Sure. But it is what it is.

I am glad the codex-cli is rust and native. Because claude code and opencode are not: react, solidjs and what have you for a tree layer.

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Then again, if codex builds codex, let it cook and port if AI is great. Otherwise, it’s claim chowder

EastSmith · 2026-02-03T23:28:30 1770161310

Really hoped you'd say Linux next.

romainhuet · 2026-02-03T23:54:02 1770162842

We should be able to make it available for Linux very soon as well!