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I'm early in the tinkering/prototyping phase of a developer tool (not a text editor) that is native AppKit, and it'll stay that way if/when I release it. I act
by feifan 5y ago
I'm early in the tinkering/prototyping phase of a developer tool (not a text editor) that is native AppKit, and it'll stay that way if/when I release it.
I actually find myself a lot more productive (i.e. can build a given feature faster) with Xcode+Swift+AppKit than VSCode+Typescript+React+Electron[0], and the near-unanimous disdain for Electron-based apps here gives me a lot of confidence that being a truly native app might actually be its own selling point.
[^0]: I learned to program in the early iOS days, spending 3–4 years tinkering around before moving to web dev for the past ~7 years. This is my first project using Swift.