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I'm laughing at all the handwringing over Marzipan in the lead-up to this year's WWDC. The future of MacOS development is not Marzipan and never was. The futu
by thought_alarm 7y ago
I'm laughing at all the handwringing over Marzipan in the lead-up to this year's WWDC.
The future of MacOS development is not Marzipan and never was. The future is SwiftUI.
- saagarjha 7y agoSwiftUI running through Catalyst, surely?
- MR4D 7y agoOr maybe Catalyst runs on (in?) SwiftUI? @kylemacomber - can you provide some context here? I'm sure many of us would love to get a high-level understanding of this.
- thought_alarm 7y agoSwiftUI isn't confined to Catalyst. It's available to native Mac AppKit apps as well as UIKit apps. (At least it appears that way, going by the WWDC session descriptions. We'll know more in a couple of hours)
- saagarjha 7y agoYeah, or once I can finish unarchiving Xcode…
- dmitriid 7y ago"A rose by any other name would smell as Marzipan". Even if it's called SwiftUI and not Marzipan, it still has all the same future problems as when it was called Marzipan [1] [1] https://blog.iconfactory.com/2019/05/what-to-expect-from-marzipan/ https://blog.iconfactory.com/2019/05/what-to-expect-from-mar...
- mwfunk 7y agoSwiftUI is totally unrelated to Marzipan.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoThe future of macOS development may be SwiftUI, but that's also the future of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS development. But I think you're right. Catalyst (née Marzipan) is being pitched by Apple as a brilliant way to get a head start on porting iPad apps to the Mac, and should become the best way to write an app that you want both an iPad and Mac version of. But "Mac apps as we know them are dead" always struck me as histrionic, and today's presentation doesn't make me think that any less.
- mpweiher 7y agoI also see it as a fairly nice way to develop iPad apps.