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This looks potentially useful and I would love to give it a try. Any chances of supporting an operating system other than OSX in the future?

ken 9y ago
It's a native Mac app, but the backend and frontend are pretty separate, so it's not out of the question. That said, it's not a high priority at this point, and it seems like it would be a ton of work, especially for just one person (me). A secondary concern is that, because it takes advantage of the Mac's built-in frameworks, there are some things which look rather difficult to me on other platforms. I can probably find a replacement for MapKit, and maybe QuickLook. The features of Spotlight I'm using seem to have no analog on any other platform. GCD is open-source and there seem to be some forks that have ports but I'm not sure what the status is. Overall, I'd rather provide a great experience on one platform than a mediocre experience on several. To do cross-platform well, even if you're using a cross-platform UI framework, you really need at least one person dedicated to each platform. I would not be able to do justice to a Windows version at all. Now, if anybody out there is interested in investing so I can hire a team of people to help me do this, I'm all ears. :-)
- vinceguidry 9y ago
  I just invested $30, that'll get you at least 6 Fiverr devs!
- ljw1001 9y ago
  If you don't mind sharing, Im curious what library you used for the charts?
  - ken 9y ago
    I wrote it myself. One of my key features has always been that everything is streaming (unless it's algorithmically impossible, like Sort), and I couldn't find any Mac charting widget that supported streaming input. That's why its feature set is rather minimalist. I'm not opposed to using a third-party charting library, if there's a good one that supports what I need, but at the time I wrote that, there wasn't.
    - ljw1001 9y ago
      Very nice job. I've looked for mac plotting libraries and couldn't find much. Hence the question
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ken 9y ago

It's a native Mac app, but the backend and frontend are pretty separate, so it's not out of the question. That said, it's not a high priority at this point, and it seems like it would be a ton of work, especially for just one person (me). A secondary concern is that, because it takes advantage of the Mac's built-in frameworks, there are some things which look rather difficult to me on other platforms. I can probably find a replacement for MapKit, and maybe QuickLook. The features of Spotlight I'm using seem to have no analog on any other platform. GCD is open-source and there seem to be some forks that have ports but I'm not sure what the status is. Overall, I'd rather provide a great experience on one platform than a mediocre experience on several. To do cross-platform well, even if you're using a cross-platform UI framework, you really need at least one person dedicated to each platform. I would not be able to do justice to a Windows version at all. Now, if anybody out there is interested in investing so I can hire a team of people to help me do this, I'm all ears. :-)

vinceguidry 9y ago
I just invested $30, that'll get you at least 6 Fiverr devs!
ljw1001 9y ago
If you don't mind sharing, Im curious what library you used for the charts?
- ken 9y ago
  I wrote it myself. One of my key features has always been that everything is streaming (unless it's algorithmically impossible, like Sort), and I couldn't find any Mac charting widget that supported streaming input. That's why its feature set is rather minimalist. I'm not opposed to using a third-party charting library, if there's a good one that supports what I need, but at the time I wrote that, there wasn't.
  - ljw1001 9y ago
    Very nice job. I've looked for mac plotting libraries and couldn't find much. Hence the question
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