It’s not the focus of the article—which is clearly intended to narrowly focus on the current state of macOS UI APIs—so I can’t fault it for having no mention of

It’s not the focus of the article—which is clearly intended to narrowly focus on the current state of macOS UI APIs—so I can’t fault it for having no mention of Electron. But it’s hard not to see a huge Electron-shaped hole in the picture painted. At least for my usage, nearly all of my dailyish use apps are either: - built in (Finder, Activity Monitor, Reminders) - macOS native but get little benefit from that other than existing before Electron (iTerm, Tower but even that is an ancient unmaintained version because I’m not sold on the subscription model) - Some Chromium thing, mostly Electron (~90% of my daily usage if not more) And I know this will vary by user but… I suspect that breakdown is similar for anyone using more than built-ins. I love the idea of “Mac-assed Mac apps”[1], but there just… aren’t many and they’re either very specialized (Panic stuff and Pixelmator being prominent examples) or very minimal and of unpredictable quality (the vast majority of the Mac App Store). Though this is a good reminder that I want to buy Paw[2] even though I currently don’t have much use for it. But like… being real, the issue isn’t that native macOS UI toolkits are bad in some way. The issue is that nobody is developing platform-specific desktop UIs at all, give or take first parties and marginalia. If anything, Linux is healthier in this respect than anything else, and that’s because it’s already a hodgepodge of community efforts. 1: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/20/mac-assed-mac-apps https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/20/mac-assed-mac-a... 2: https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/