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If you don't know Swift, but do know Electron, it's easier to do it in 30 lines of Javascript. People who don't like the developers work can always write and p
by jeroenhd 1y ago
If you don't know Swift, but do know Electron, it's easier to do it in 30 lines of Javascript.
People who don't like the developers work can always write and publish their own application, of course.
- whatevaa 1y agoIt's hard work writing free stuff for others, much easier to criticise stuff instead of getting your hands dirty.
- pwdisswordfishz 1y agoIt's hard work learning programming tools and optimizing, much easier to use a one-size-fits all framework that wastes the end-user's resources.
- chipsrafferty 1y agoWhat's the incentive to spend a lot of time to optimize for something you're giving away for free?
- nsonha 1y agoIt's NOT intelectually challenging. Software engineers love to learn new things, but they do not love 10 different syntaxes for displaying stuff. Figure it out.
- steviedotboston 1y agoI just asked ChatGPT to write a Swift program to renew MAC addresses with a menu bar icon and it had no problem with it. Just over 50 lines.