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5 years agoCatalyst: why not?
Just a curiosity, why not to develop a Catalyst app for macOS users using code from iOS app? I’m not a developer so I might be wrong, but UI and UX would be a lot more like a native macOS app and res...
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5 years agoWell, they've already got a bunch of platform-specific stuff going on for their Mac desktop build: see, for example, all of the discussion about the Swift code in the back-end, as well as whatever extensive customizations they are doing in order to make the current Electron-based UI as sorta-Mac-like as they've thus far managed to make it. So the "write once, run anywhere" horse has already left the barn.
Point #2 is more compelling, to me, but who even knows what Apple's platform strategy is. Enough of the built-in OSX apps are built using Catalyst that it doesn't seem like it'll be going anywhere in the immediate future...