That was a good read, thank you for passing that on. It highlights a good point, that Apple is itself releasing applications with non-Mac UI (News, Home, Stocks, Voice Memos are mentioned in that article). In fact those applications are forced upon the user in a way that I've never seen before, as if they are core system components. As a slightly interesting aside, the Stocks app on my MacOS installation has always been called "Μετοχές.app", which might be Greek? I've never known why, and as I cannot delete or uninstall it due to System Integrity Protection I have simply ignored it.
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 02:16 Richard Charles, <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 30, 2019, at 5:57 PM, Sam Ryan wrote: > > > > I tried a completely new approach - Electron. I have found Electron to > be surprisingly quick to prototype, easy to bridge to c++, and is cross > platform (non mobile at least). I would not have recommended a non-native > approach until recently, but for what it is worth, I've come to realise > this is one of the better options available these days. YMMV. > > Interesting. > > > On Sep 30, 2019, at 7:00 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > > > If you don't mind coding in JavaScript, don't care about Mac UI > guidelines, and aren't shy about shipping a 200MB+ app that has an entire > freakin' web browser embedded in it… > > > > (Sorry for the grumpiness. I'm just sick of all the "Mac apps" that are > just Electron-based web pages, e.g. Slack.) > > Also interesting. > > I found John Gruber's comments on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps > enlightening. > > https://daringfireball.net/2018/12/electron_and_the_decline_of_native_apps > > --Richard Charles > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
