Re: Thoughts on ARC
Re: Thoughts on ARC
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on ARC
- From: Richard Charles via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 07:16:51 -0600
> On Sep 30, 2019, at 5:57 PM, Sam Ryan wrote:
>
> I tried a completely new approach - Electron. I have found Electron to be
> surprisingly quick to prototype, easy to bridge to c++, and is cross platform
> (non mobile at least). I would not have recommended a non-native approach
> until recently, but for what it is worth, I've come to realise this is one of
> the better options available these days. YMMV.
Interesting.
> On Sep 30, 2019, at 7:00 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
> If you don't mind coding in JavaScript, don't care about Mac UI guidelines,
> and aren't shy about shipping a 200MB+ app that has an entire freakin' web
> browser embedded in it…
>
> (Sorry for the grumpiness. I'm just sick of all the "Mac apps" that are just
> Electron-based web pages, e.g. Slack.)
Also interesting.
I found John Gruber's comments on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps
enlightening.
https://daringfireball.net/2018/12/electron_and_the_decline_of_native_apps
--Richard Charles
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