Meh. I still can’t find most apps for my iPhone that I had on my mac. Sure there are lots of “webpages but in objective-c with notifications“ and the occasional

Meh. I still can’t find most apps for my iPhone that I had on my mac. Sure there are lots of “webpages but in objective-c with notifications“ and the occasional interesting project that disappears after 2 years because the developer can’t work full time to keep up with API churn, but lots of arguably critical stuff is just missing. There’s no IRC client with working notifications that doesn’t cost money. I haven’t found a working gvim port (occasionally broken ones show up.) I haven’t found an ssh client I like (has key support, has sftp support, has a vte that doesn’t suck) (and no, ish doesn’t count. I shouldn’t have to reinstall my stuff after having my files deleted with no warning every couple weeks.) This is pretty bad for an OS that’s been around for over a decade. I’m pretty sure both palm OS and windows had decent ssh clients after 10 years. I haven’t found a replacement for wish (which is super useful for flinging together a quick GUI app when someone needs one) There’s nothing that really replaces AppleScript (shortcuts is more like the goofy graphical automation thing OS X had that uses the same API) There’s no Arduino IDE There’s no sync thing port or anything that could even replace it. No BitTorrent client, no useful mail clients (none of them can download mail in the background) no good alternative podcast/rss clients (see mail) no cron. And of course lots of little tiny (and some not so tiny) shell utilities that are trivially easy to find on OS X are at best reimplemented badly in awkward apps and more often totally unavailable. The Mac App Store is more empty than the iOS store but both are nothing compared to the OSX software library.