I've been dogfooding the iPad layout of Element X under macOS on Apple Silicon since day 1 - it works pretty well. We could also ship it via Catalyst to run as

I've been dogfooding the iPad layout of Element X under macOS on Apple Silicon since day 1 - it works pretty well. We could also ship it via Catalyst to run as a pure macOS app (albeit with the iPad layout) on both Apple Silicon and Intel, once https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/106021 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/106021 is fixed. Unfortunately making it a "real" macOS app is much harder, as the UI is currently uses UIKit in a bunch of places to make up for feature and performance limitations in SwiftUI. These would have to be ported over to AppKit to run on macOS. I had a go at it over the holidays, but it's not trivial - perhaps someone with more AppKit skills than I could make it work (or maintain a fork) though. To give an idea of the amount of UIKit that would need to be swapped out: matthew@shadowfax ElementX % find . -name \*.swift | xargs perl -ne 'while (/[^a-zA-Z](UI[A-Z].*?)[^a-zA-Z]/g) { print "$1\n" }' | grep -v UITest | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 52 UIKit 31 UIImage 20 UIApplication 13 UIScrollView 12 UITextView 11 UIDevice 11 UIConstants 10 UIColor 5 UIViewController 5 UIRectCorner 5 UIKitBackgroundTask 5 UIKeyCommand 4 UIView 4 UIPasteboard 4 UIBackgroundTaskIdentifier 3 UIViewControllerRepresentable 3 UITableView 3 UIScreen 3 UINavigationController 3 UIKitBackgroundTaskService 3 UIFont 3 UIActivityViewControllerWrapper 3 UIActivityViewController 2 UIViewRepresentableContext 2 UIViewControllerRepresentableContext 2 UITextViewWrapper 2 UITableViewDelegate 2 UIResponder 2 UIHostingController 2 UICollectionView 1 UIViewType 1 UIViewRepresentable 1 UITraitCollection 1 UITextViewDelegate 1 UITableViewDiffableDataSource 1 UITableViewController 1 UITableViewCell 1 UIScrollViewDelegate 1 UIKitAttributes 1 UIHostingConfiguration 1 UIContentSizeCategory 1 UIBezierPath 1 UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor 1 UIApplicationDelegate 1 UIActivity