[HN Gopher] What's the Problem with Old but Excellent Mac Apps?
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       What's the Problem with Old but Excellent Mac Apps?
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-03-04 10:43 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | bertez wrote:
       | fantastical is quite nice
        
       | Kibranoz wrote:
       | I think Catalyst is no longer relevant with the SwiftUI framwork
        
         | math-dev wrote:
         | Why? I thought they go hand in hand
        
         | gumby wrote:
         | That's the plan but I don't think SwiftUI is there yet.
         | 
         | Even the name gives it away: catalyst is like Carbon or Rosetta
         | -- intended to be transitional.
        
       | AlabasterAxe wrote:
       | It's funny to me that there's no acknowledgment that high
       | fidelity web apps and electron apps are taking the wind out of
       | the sails of platform specific desktop app development.
        
         | Razengan wrote:
         | They're taking the wind out of the entire hardware alright.
        
       | GeekyBear wrote:
       | I would certainly rather have a Catalyst app than an Electron
       | app, just from a system resources used standpoint.
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       | Slack, for example, can be absolutely ridiculous.
        
         | kitsunesoba wrote:
         | If I could run the Slack or Discord iOS apps on macOS I
         | absolutely would, along with several other apps that have both
         | Electron and iOS apps. Are Catalyst apps as good as true
         | designed-for-mac AppKit apps? Not usually, but they're still
         | several steps up from Electron apps and I'll take what I can
         | get.
         | 
         | Unfortunately the companies behind these apps have elected to
         | not allow users to make this choice, so once Universal Control
         | is released these apps will be permanently moving to my iPad.
        
       | seumars wrote:
       | >I'm so stuck in my daily work routine of creating apps that I'm
       | not a good customer of apps
       | 
       | Surely that can't be a good thing?
        
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