If the launch post was about what’s new, this one is about how it’s built. The story behind the rewrite, the calls we made along the way, and what it took to pull off a rewrite of this size. The hard part wasn’t making Raycast run. The hard part was making it feel right.

Source: A Technical Deep Dive Into the New Raycast

Even Raycast is losing its voice.

Maintaining two separate UI stacks would mean twice the work without moving any faster.

Source: A Technical Deep Dive Into the New Raycast - Raycast Blog

This is a narrative violation to the AI is going to make life easier.

Modulo some AI writing, this is a great post exploring the trade offs between web and native-only technologies to achieve a cross platform high quality desktop app.

I am confident there will be detractors and Raycast also clearly admit they understand the trade offs here.

For anyone still interested in a fully native Mac OS alternative, I continue to recommend Alfred 5