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Isn't this already the case? iOS apps can be built, for Intel, using Catalyst, with very trivial changes in code, but we still see Electron hanging around toda
by LeoPanthera 6y ago
Isn't this already the case?
iOS apps can be built, for Intel, using Catalyst, with very trivial changes in code, but we still see Electron hanging around today like a bad smell.
I can't imagine this will change anything.
- pettazz 6y agoBut have you actually used a Catalyst app on mac? They're terrible ports as it is right now.
- LeoPanthera 6y agoAs bad as Electron? I think not.
- spideymans 6y agoEh, Catalyst apps are as good or bad as the developer wants them to be. Voice Memos and "Find My" on the Mac are two fantastic Catalyst apps, and certainly better than Electron. Anyways Catalyst won't even be relevant in the long term, once iPhone apps are written in SwiftUI
- _frog 6y agoInterestingly there's a few mentions of Catalyst improvements in the Xcode 12 release notes: > When bringing iPad apps to macOS, you can now use the Optimize Interface for Mac target setting to use native macOS controls and Mac resolution Hopefully this means Catalyst apps will feel a little more like actual Mac apps.
- enos_feedler 6y agoI often close the Twitter app and Apple's news and stock apps on my Mac mini because the performance is terrible. Hoping they've spent time tuning this more.
- spideymans 6y agoCatalyst and SwiftUI are (were?) very immature technologies, not yet ideal for production software. I'd imagine that we're at least a year out from seeing real SwiftUI software in the wild.