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0 pointsechelon4y ago0 comments

And think about how much more work it was. And how much more work it'll take to maintain and update.

It's an interesting choice to do native.

That said, very impressive work.

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jamil74y ago· 1 in thread

> And think about how much more work it was. And how much more work it'll take to maintain and update.

This isn't really true when supporting a single platform, assuming the author is fluent in AppKit etc.

kitsunesoba4y ago

AppKit apps also don’t usually break that easily. It’s surprisingly simple to get an abandoned OS X 10.0-10.4 era Cocoa app compiling and running on modern macOS, I’ve done it a couple times just for kicks.

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