Looked into building an FTP GUI for MacOS, but I found that there aren't any easy options for programmatically doing SFTP in Swift. Best option looks like it's SwiftNIO which is fairly low level.
Ask HN: What's your Mac OS App side project?
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#12Why does it have to be macOS but not a Windows app?
Re: Ask HN: What's your Mac OS App side project?
#13Why does it have to be macOS but not a Windows app?
I too trying macOS only at first. Because Windows has can have of apps as alternative. macOS users are prefer to buy premium while majority of Windows users aren't.
Re: Ask HN: What's your Mac OS App side project?
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I too trying macOS only at first. Because Windows has can have of apps as alternative. macOS users are prefer to buy premium while majority of Windows users aren't.
Not sure. I mean, even that "minority" who buys software on Windows, has to be orders of magnitude larger compared to macOS userbase.
Re: Ask HN: What's your Mac OS App side project?
#15I initially used Go for the backend and web as the frontend, so it essentially works as a local web server serving a web page in the browser. However, I'm now rewriting it in Qt (C++) to make it easier to maintain and to make it into a native application instead of a local web app.
Re: Ask HN: What's your Mac OS App side project?
#16Not building an app myself right now, but I worked a lot on the desktop app space, leading development at various companies and been thinking of writing a book on the topic (I'm an O'Reilly author in another space). I tend to blog on macOS stuff every now and then, like https://www.jviotti.com/2022/02/21/emitting-signposts-to-ins... . Quick questions for everybody here: - How do you develop your apps right now, mainl…