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Love the concept & the idea! But why did go for MacOS / Swift instead of something cross-platform, such as Electron or Qt? Many devs outside of SV aren't using
by rsp1984 7y ago
Love the concept & the idea! But why did go for MacOS / Swift instead of something cross-platform, such as Electron or Qt? Many devs outside of SV aren't using Macs.
- thomaspaulmann 7y agoWe wanted to build a lightweight and performant client that integrates deeply with the OS. We're planning to implement another native client for Windows later.
- zmix 7y agoApplications like these highly benefit from deep integration into the environment. Also, keeping them native and easy on resources makes them using a snap. You want these to come and go quickly, at the whim of a fingertip. You want them to connect to your local search services, reuse local components, etc. The biggest problem for most of these "Launchers", is that they try to be cross-platform, making them slow and a pain to use, as soon as you want more than just basic seek&run. I am still trying to find a suitable on Windows, that would make me as happy and satisfied as Quicksilver does on macOS.