[HN Gopher] What's the Problem with Old but Excellent Mac Apps? ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (christiantietze.de) (TXT) w3m dump (christiantietze.de) | 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. | | 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? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-05 23:00 UTC)