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That's great! Now, bonus time: Let's do something like that for SwiftUI.
I love the Swift Talk video series https://talk.objc.io . They've done a few reimplementations of SwiftUI components that helped me feel more like I understood those things.
Well worth it.
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I don’t know that code was always text, but I’m thankful to have been born in the days after programming assembly on punch cards was not the only way.
The early days of programming was also text in the form of pencil on paper, then the program was transferred to the machine in various manual ways, such as flipping toggle switches, followed by punch cards. But the actual process of writing programs was always text. Even before electronic computers people wrote down algorithms to be executed by themselves on paper, or by rooms full of people whose job title was ‘comp…
macOS probably doesn't get enough love from an OS design perspective. Over the years I've had reasons to work pretty closely with the guts of all of Linux, macOS and Windows and macOS is probably my favourite, design wise, although for some tasks you can't beat the flexibility and feature set of Linux. A few highlights that are lesser known: - XPC/Mach is a pretty reasonable IPC system that avoids the huge complexity…
> It's very weak that the OS has no way to keep apps up to date except via the store, which then introduces tons of other problems. /usr/bin/softwareupdate [1] [1] https://ss64.com/osx/softwareupdate.html
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Yes, a modern OS is a tangled mess of microservices.
They just don't communicate using JSON. I can see it now; Kernel JSON (aka kjson) support in the Linux kernel to attract Node developers.
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I agree with most of what you've said here, except: - Code signing. It's incredibly frustrating as a developer to try and codesign an application to pass gatekeeper, requiring multiple steps with very little information as to what's _actually_ going on or going wrong in the middle of it, including uploading your entire bundle to Apple and waiting an arbitrary amount of time for them to notarize it. > It's very weak t…
A core OS service in my books is an API that can be used by any app, can be adopted in a backwards compatible way and which is used by the in-house apps too. The App Store isn't an API or service, it can't be used by every app and the built-in macOS apps aren't necessarily store apps. Yes, it's Apple's strategy but I maintain that from a tech perspective it's a very weak one. Cryptography DX is always terrible on eve…
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> It's very weak that the OS has no way to keep apps up to date except via the store, which then introduces tons of other problems. /usr/bin/softwareupdate [1] [1] https://ss64.com/osx/softwareupdate.html
This updates the OS and related content.
That is a very interesting if not a prodigiously strained hand-wave of a solution to GGP's complaint, "that the OS has no way to keep apps up to date," as Safari, Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Maps, Music, Photos, Messages, FaceTime, Notes, Preview, TextEdit, KeyNote, Pages, Numbers, GarageBand, Quicktime Player, Activity Monitor, Terminal, Console, Disk Utility, and hundreds of other bundled applications, and including the tens of thousands of BSD userland utilities, as well as the AppStore itself, are packages managed by the package manager called Software Update, a Preference Panel in System Preferences, which is the GUI front end for /usr/bin/softwareupdate.
There is no package manager that exists on any platform that manages every application there is, but between softwareupdate, AppStore, and the only professional and stable third party package manager for macOS that exists, MacPorts —these three package managers can be employed to keep well over 2 million distinct installed packages up to date.
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If you don't, would recommend listening to ATP, which he's a cohost on. Still a joy to listen to.
Used to listen to it. Stopped because I cannot stand Marco Arment.
So the Window server is a memory shitshow for the past 20 years? Today I learned.
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Used to listen to it. Stopped because I cannot stand Marco Arment.
I am mostly fine with Marco but he introduces so much fluff and nonsense that I subconsciously avoid listening to ATP.
(Oddest case being one with CGPGrey, who I think is a famous youtuber? But you wouldn't learn a single thing about this from listening to it. Instead they talked about some kind of planning notebook they invented for hours.)
I guess it's good if you want a parasocial relationship with a dad.