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OS X and Linux are not the same OS. The entire stack for writing GUI applications is completely different - as different as writing an iOS app vs. an Android ap

by blkhp19 11y ago

OS X and Linux are not the same OS. The entire stack for writing GUI applications is completely different - as different as writing an iOS app vs. an Android app. OS X and Linux don't share the same kernel, the same foundation frameworks, or the same UI frameworks. The entire application would have to be written from scratch. If they're really ambitious they could probably share some Objective-C business logic, but anything that touches the UI is platform specific.

StavrosK 11y ago
They have a Windows version. Linux isn't less like OS X than Windows is.
- blkhp19 11y ago
  Just because you can type "sudo" on both doesn't make them similar when it comes to making GUI applications. Again, the frameworks are completely different, meaning that a complete or nearly complete rewrite would be necessary.
  - StavrosK 11y ago
    Again, not more than the one needed for Windows.
    - eropple 11y ago
      Windows has an order of magnitude more users, and probably comparatively even more money than that. The first step to getting commercially-focused software on your desktop OS of choice is being a desirable market to cater to.
- victorhooi 11y ago
  They are using the Cocoa toolkit on OSX - that is a Mac-specific thing and isn't available on Linux.