Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by milen » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App
sketch.com

Re: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by wmf » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 10:00 PM UTC

Is this attempting to throw some shade on Figma to counteract lost sales?

Re: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by Epskampie » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 10:03 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #2

Is this attempting to throw some shade on Figma to counteract lost sales?

Feels like it. Don’t get me wrong, I think sketch is great, but no way i’m going into apple’s walled garden voluntarily. Very happy that figma works on linux.

Re: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by CognitiveLens » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 10:03 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #2

Is this attempting to throw some shade on Figma to counteract lost sales?

Presumably - Sketch is great software, well built, but the fact that in late 2020 they still have to write "And soon, the ability to collaborate in real-time" is the the best counter-argument to building native for me personally.

Re: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by qppo » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 10:04 PM UTC

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24899391

Re: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by Zealotux » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 10:07 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #2

Is this attempting to throw some shade on Figma to counteract lost sales?

It'd take a lot for me to leave Figma for another tool, performances are rock-solid on my 2015 low-end MBP in the browser, granted I'm not working on the most complex UIs but I've yet to see limitations.

I do not miss Sketch one bit.

Re: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 10:08 PM UTC

CognitiveLens wrote: post #4

wmf wrote: post #2

Is this attempting to throw some shade on Figma to counteract lost sales?

Presumably - Sketch is great software, well built, but the fact that in late 2020 they still have to write "And soon, the ability to collaborate in real-time" is the the best counter-argument to building native for me personally.

Ability to collaborate in real-time is not something exclusive to web apps.

Re: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by benfrain » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 10:09 PM UTC

Sketch performance feels like a web app. Figma feels native. On every platform. Go figure.

Re: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 10:13 PM UTC

Epskampie wrote: post #3

wmf wrote: post #2

Is this attempting to throw some shade on Figma to counteract lost sales?

Feels like it. Don’t get me wrong, I think sketch is great, but no way i’m going into apple’s walled garden voluntarily. Very happy that figma works on linux.

So you prefer to be locked in to a server that really serves someone else? [0]

At least, with Sketch/macOS the code is executed on the device you can control (to a degree).

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

Re: Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App

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Post by CognitiveLens » Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 10:13 PM UTC

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #7

CognitiveLens wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably - Sketch is great software, well built, but the fact that in late 2020 they still have to write "And soon, the ability to collaborate in real-time" is the the best counter-argument to building native for me personally.

Ability to collaborate in real-time is not something exclusive to web apps.

of course not, but the effort to bring real-time collaboration to native apps is much higher, e.g. MS Office's still-poor current experience compared with Google Docs's capabilities 5 years ago