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0 pointswhywhywhywhy7mo ago0 comments

Apple has to take some of the blame from this, MacOS without Electron apps is a much less useful proposition. If they knew they were going to change this API in this release it would have made sense to reach out and offer a public way to Electron.

End of the day the needs of users running Electron apps outweighs whatever opinions the internal Apple team has about their APIs

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urbandw311er7mo ago

Absolutely not. Apple has zero responsibility to anybody for changing a private API. That’s the whole point of it being marked private.

whywhywhywhyOP7mo ago

I disagree I think Apple has a responsibility to not break the biggest software used on their platform. They might not like it but I'm sure they'd dislike that software never being there at all even more.

DengistKhan7mo ago

If one dude is using a private API, that's him being reckless. If thousands of applications are using a private API, that's poor API design.

bogantech7mo ago

The thousands of "apps" wouldn't all be using this private api if they weren't electron junk

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