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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Your assertions aren't backed up by anything; your criticisms of Swift are superficial and reek of "I'm unfamiliar with it, therefore it's bad".
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Did you try using iOS 13? I noticed a serious improvement with its new version of Safari compared to past releases.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> It's called being facetious Then stop being facetious. It wasn't clear you were being facetious, anyway. > Completely irrelevant No, it isn't, not to the point I was making. You also don't get to decide what&#x27
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I think it's left out because it's about 17 years old and most people who would be familiar with the name of the editor already know it's a macOS app. But you're right, that 'native' tagline is such a big draw
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Indeed. Although, some of the things that Apple's ObjC Foundation provides that aren't in Swift's cross-platform Foundation are sorely missed — but I doubt there's much impetus to put them in Swift's cross-platform
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> that looks native and isn't slow No. > You're not going to find anything else thats as complete [...] Qt. WxWidgets. Soon, React Native for Windows and macOS. > [...] or performant No. > I bet you use Java GUI's
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Indeed it isn't. That would require Apple's proprietary frameworks and macOS-specific utilities that support their Apple-only toolchains.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
And in case anybody comes in raving about how Vulkan isn't supported on macOS, that's fine, Vulkan-to-Metal compatibility layer libraries are available.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
There is need to translate existing Objective-C code: on platforms where the Objective-C bridge is unavailable (Linux and Windows), Swift code can not call Objective-C code, nor toll-free bridge with Objective-C types, and therefore Objec
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> RSI inducing tap to click [...] How does tap to click induce RSI? Surely it's easier on your wrist and hand than having to press a button with force. > [...] tap to click barely works That experience doesn't seem to square
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
IBM's Kitura was never as popular as Vapor or Perfect. Plus, once Apple released SwiftNIO, much of the things people did use Kitura for were made redundant.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> because of a point release The second set of digits represents major releases. The third set represents point releases. macOS has been out, using this versioning scheme for a little over 20 years. Don't belittle the work between
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Dismissive responses like this are frowned upon by the HN community guidelines. Give your reasonings, not a snide remark.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
> Apple also isn't dogfooding much with Swift. That's because it didn't have a stable ABI until Swift 5, released last year. Now that it does, a lot of their iOS/iPadOS apps have been rewritten, at least partially but
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
The article content is all about how Swift isn’t bound to iOS. You can use it in Ubuntu, Fedora, and inside a Docker container — combined with the “Remote - Docker” extension, as well as some Swift-related extensions hooked up to the includ
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
If you weren't aware, haiku is a Japanese poetry form. It works much better in Japanese than in English, as one might expect.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It might feel native on platforms where 'native' doesn't mean anything (Windows, Linux), but the only native thing about it on macOS is the fact it has proper global menu bars — which is something provided by Electron for fre
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
I'd love to see some dog-fooding on this. Maybe a branch of VS Code for RN. I mean, say what you will about the quality of even Apple's own Catalyst apps, but at least they eat their own dogfood (although with the unfortunate cons
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
So use spaces. Solved.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
If you're using the Creator Dashboard, click on the numbers and they change to -- symbols.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It's already possible by viewing your Twitch chat via an IRC client with certain IRCv3 capabilities requested. It's not actually that useful, though; sometimes users can be chatting away but there's no record of their presenc
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
To make much more explicit the differentiation between traditional developers, using programming languages, and the sorts of people at which things like PowerApps, Google App Maker, or this AirTable are aimed — usually more database-y, busi
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
You realise that GP's "real developer" wasn't a challenge to your pride, yes? It wasn't to denigrate you or your skills, just to give context for the remainder of their own post about their own experiences — as an e
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Java doesn't get off scot-free for anything; nobody likes it, they just use it because they must. Java just happens to be less prominent in tech media right now since JS on the server is the new(-ish) hotness. There's still plenty
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Of course it's a generalisation. That should be clear enough by the words "I bet most ". You also missed the point of the comment, which was to state why natural scrolling doesn't rile up Mac users so much as Windows us
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Explain your reasoning.
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
It's the principle of "if Muhammad won't come to the mountain, bring the mountain to Muhammad". Or whatever other name you prefer, same principle. The hubris of the technologically competent, one so often spied on this w
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by zapzupnz 6y ago
Taking me to another website to look at the same clip — and then make me skip to the end myself and then manage having to pause the video — is lipstick on a pig. A JPEG will be just fine.
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The only thing we need to see is the outputted user interface. Everything else is superfluous.
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Not shorter vids. Pictures.

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