Re: Thoughts on ARC
Re: Thoughts on ARC
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on ARC
- From: Sam Ryan via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 10:50:19 +1300
That was a good read, thank you for passing that on. It highlights a good
point, that Apple is itself releasing applications with non-Mac UI (News,
Home, Stocks, Voice Memos are mentioned in that article). In fact those
applications are forced upon the user in a way that I've never seen before,
as if they are core system components. As a slightly interesting aside, the
Stocks app on my MacOS installation has always been called "Μετοχές.app",
which might be Greek? I've never known why, and as I cannot delete or
uninstall it due to System Integrity Protection I have simply ignored it.
On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 02:16 Richard Charles, <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > 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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