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Swift is collapsing under the weight of its increasing complexity. So many, many special cases & they keep adding more! As a developer it becomes so very hard to reason about code …

Creative Cloud. I don't think there's anything with the same feature set and polish on Linux.

I've spent pretty much my entire career (20 years!) writing Objective-C: first for macOS, later iOS. Of course Swift is now the new kid on the block, and has lots to recommend it. …

Personally I find the LS interface way too complex and intimidating (and I say this as a long time macOS / iOS developer). Lulu has a quirky interface, but it's much clearer. Of co…

Yeah, I feel the same way about Dash 5. Eventually had to upgrade to 5 when 4 became incompatible with the latest Apple docets. But I much preferred the Dash 4 search.

I've been a professional macOS developer for almost 20 years now and I can't tell you the number of times that this has been an issue. With no access (or ability to patch) the plat…

I'll give a big vote of thanks to the OpenCore developers. Clover had constant stability problems during boot on my hardware (Coffee Lake, Z390), but OC has been stable since day o…

Author mentions web browsers and extensions in the context of barriers to creating a successful malleable system. Surely the web browser - considered in relation to web pages & tec…

Exactly. This is advertising people. Since the dawn of time advertisers have over-exaggerated and over-sold products. Call it an art (I might, but not in this case), call it a sham…