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It makes me sad to see native apps fade out in many cases. Maybe it’s just nostalgia - I spent many summers making little native applications with Delphi or Xco

It makes me sad to see native apps fade out in many cases. Maybe it’s just nostalgia - I spent many summers making little native applications with Delphi or Xcode, and had plenty of fun. There’s still something beautiful - and irreplaceable - in my opinion, about a well-designed native app. Sure, some Electron apps are pretty, but I’d prefer to have my minimally-styled, “boring-looking”, native macOS and Windows software back.

jbverschoor 6y ago
SwiftUI is pretty cool and productive. What I don't like about most non-native apps, is that the people did not read the UI guidelines, and small things like proxy icons. I like react-native / nativescript and the like, where the components are native, and only the logic is in js or whatever technology.
m00x 6y ago
Native apps are nice, but they have to be accompanied with support for other OS's if you want to collaborate with others. Every company I've worked at switched from Sketch to Figma because it makes working with other so much easier. Personally I've switched to XD since they've designed components better and I can between windows and osx, but if you're working 100% on osx, sketch is still fine.
AlchemistCamp 6y ago
I'm really torn on Xcode. The IDE is an amazing experience and some of the visual tooling is fantastic. On the other hand, it leaves so much to be desired as an editor. Lacking a well-supported VIM mode is my biggest frustration, but it's also missing so many other convenient features that have become common since the influence of Sublime. It would be great to have multiple cursors, convenient line duplication and swapping, etc, etc. A option for "Submlime/Atom/VSC"-compatible shortcuts would be fantastic. A basic VIM plugin would be an even bigger productivity boost, though.

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It makes me sad to see native apps fade out in many cases. Maybe it’s just nostalgia - I spent many summers making little native applications with Delphi or Xco

by jonpalmisc 6y ago

jbverschoor 6y ago
SwiftUI is pretty cool and productive. What I don't like about most non-native apps, is that the people did not read the UI guidelines, and small things like proxy icons. I like react-native / nativescript and the like, where the components are native, and only the logic is in js or whatever technology.
m00x 6y ago
Native apps are nice, but they have to be accompanied with support for other OS's if you want to collaborate with others. Every company I've worked at switched from Sketch to Figma because it makes working with other so much easier. Personally I've switched to XD since they've designed components better and I can between windows and osx, but if you're working 100% on osx, sketch is still fine.
AlchemistCamp 6y ago
I'm really torn on Xcode. The IDE is an amazing experience and some of the visual tooling is fantastic. On the other hand, it leaves so much to be desired as an editor. Lacking a well-supported VIM mode is my biggest frustration, but it's also missing so many other convenient features that have become common since the influence of Sublime. It would be great to have multiple cursors, convenient line duplication and swapping, etc, etc. A option for "Submlime/Atom/VSC"-compatible shortcuts would be fantastic. A basic VIM plugin would be an even bigger productivity boost, though.