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> Here’s an idea: guess at new features in macOS by using the work of Safari team members as a leading indicator. Shh, please... we don't want WebKit releases to look like xnu releases
(/s ... I hope??)
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A settings view that is largely shared between macOS System Preferences, iOS Settings and icloud.com is not single-platform. Windows Settings uses React Native for the same reason.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384494 Edit: mention iOS Settings.
> between macOS System Preferences, iOS Settings Why don’t those both use the same UI toolkit, like the convergent GNU/Linux DEs? (macOS seems to be getting more touch-optimized with each update — eg. making sliders giant and iOS-style; why hasn’t Apple merged Cocoa and Cocoa Touch into one yet?)
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A settings view that is largely shared between macOS System Preferences, iOS Settings and icloud.com is not single-platform. Windows Settings uses React Native for the same reason.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384494 Edit: mention iOS Settings.
> between macOS System Preferences, iOS Settings Why don’t those both use the same UI toolkit, like the convergent GNU/Linux DEs? (macOS seems to be getting more touch-optimized with each update — eg. making sliders giant and iOS-style; why hasn’t Apple merged Cocoa and Cocoa Touch into one yet?)
Awesome! Do you know more Web Views in use?
Right now they are only a bunch of settings panels remaining.
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Don't quote me on this, but I believe that Apple Music (nee iTunes) has used web views for a long time; probably over a decade. The entire thing probably isn't a web view, but my recollection is that the store components were.
Unsurprisingly the App Store is another example.
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I'd bet that the reason they're using React is because it's cheaper and easier to find front-end developers for the task.
I’ve been hearing this on HN and similar forums for what feels like years now: “Electron/web-based GUIs are only popular because it’s easy to find devs in those ecosystems” Have we considered asking why it’s so much easier to find React devs? Why such a huge, huge majority of UI development today takes place on the web? I’m a front end web developer. I’m very biased. But I’m a little tired of the narrative that “the…
That depends on what one values, in my opinion. Whenever I start poking around with front end web stuff it makes me want to tear my hair out. Not because it isn't technically capable, but it all feels so slapdash, duct-taped, and chaotic compared to what I'm used to writing AppKit/UIKit, even if some aspects of the experience with front end web tech are nicer. Things are solidifying around React which helps, but for me at least, it's still a hard sell to trade away the positive aspects of native development just to get the positive aspects of front end web dev.
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I'd bet that the reason they're using React is because it's cheaper and easier to find front-end developers for the task.
I’ve been hearing this on HN and similar forums for what feels like years now: “Electron/web-based GUIs are only popular because it’s easy to find devs in those ecosystems” Have we considered asking why it’s so much easier to find React devs? Why such a huge, huge majority of UI development today takes place on the web? I’m a front end web developer. I’m very biased. But I’m a little tired of the narrative that “the…
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I've always wondered why these panes in particular felt like total garbage in comparison to the rest of System Preferences. Now I know!
Confirmation bias!
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I’ve been hearing this on HN and similar forums for what feels like years now: “Electron/web-based GUIs are only popular because it’s easy to find devs in those ecosystems” Have we considered asking why it’s so much easier to find React devs? Why such a huge, huge majority of UI development today takes place on the web? I’m a front end web developer. I’m very biased. But I’m a little tired of the narrative that “the…
Seriously, have you TRIED non-web, cross platform, UI dev? It's a nightmare. At least all the things I've tried so far are. I'm trying KDE's Qt IDE out and so far it seems much better at getting a working example built, though it looks like it's missing a visual interface editor. Qt-the-company had a good visual interface editor I used in ~2018 I think with PyQt but I can't find a way to launch it anymore. It's a mes…