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Ask HN: Is it still worth it learning Mac OS app development?
Aside from famous indie successes which might induce survivorship bias, is it worth it to undergo Mac OS native development?
- stephenr 8y agoAs opposed to what? Not developing for Mac, or developing a web app, or using a cross-platform library/toolkit? It also depends what your product is/does. If it's a barely-profitable niche product on any platform, it's possibly not profitable at all on a reduced market like macOS.
- andrewmcwatters 8y agoYes, absolutely, because cross-platform and web technologies can only go surface deep. What the industry really needs to spark innovation in the native development spaces is new engineering minds asking, "Why does native take so long to development?" and solving these problems to raise the bar for the rest of the industry. People who operate and can contribute to this space can help us make the most of our hardware today, decreasing energy consumption, reducing disk space utilization, lowing RAM requirements, all to make the most of our devices. Enhancing native UI development across the big three platforms is more critical than ever as we see Moore's law lose meaningful ground.
- chmaynard 8y agoProbably the most compelling reason to learn macOS app development is to leverage your talent and ambition to get a job in Apple Software Engineering. Many people have done just that.