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You did not build a Mac app, you built a webpage in a shell of a Mac app…
by frizlab 2y ago
You did not build a Mac app, you built a webpage in a shell of a Mac app…
- correa_brian 2y agoAppreciate you checking it out.
- xu_ituairo 2y agoThis is an unkind nitpick of something someone has made. It’s an app that runs on a Mac. What framework it’s running on doesn’t make it less of an app.
- pyinstallwoes 2y agowell it's not a Mac app. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
- correa_brian 2y agoAgreed, thanks.
- prophesi 2y agoI do think people will have certain expectations when they hear "Mac app", though. Though at the same time, Electron is a bad word on HN. The ideal situation for marketing would be additional support for Windows/Linux so that it can be called a cross-platform app.
- robotnikman 2y agoThis might be a good thing, since it means it could be more easily ported to Windows and Linux as well
- correa_brian 2y agoThis is why I'm using Electron. Lower effort to distribute for other operating systems.
- robotnikman 2y agoLooking forward to seeing it on Windows and Linux then! I don't have a mac at the moment myself. I actually had a similar idea to yours using python but ended up fizzling out on the idea after a bit as other projects came up.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoIs it an app? Does it run on a Mac? Then it is a Mac app
- frizlab 2y agoSo by your standard if I embed a windows emulator that runs a windows app I have created a Mac app?
- addandsubtract 2y agoYes, if you can embed Windows in a Mac app, you have created a Mac app. Parallels is a Mac app, too. If it looks like a duck and quacks like duck, it's a duck.
- frizlab 2y agoThat’s the thing. Electron apps and co do not quack like a duck. They feel terrible and out of place in the macOS ecosystem. They are not Mac apps. And the same is true of some apps made by Apple framework too! Catalyst apps are (almost always) terrible, including the ones done by Apple. The only exception I’m aware of is Messages, and even that one is not perfect. They are apps that happen to run on a Mac. Not Mac apps.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoYes - the mac app is not the windows app though, it is the entire package of emulator + windows + windows app. If it's not a mac app then what exactly is executing on the mac?
- coldwater00 2y agoone could say the same of Slack, WhatsApp, Zoom, etc..
- frizlab 2y agoAnd I do say it.