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Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by zoom6628 »

FpUser wrote: post #268
mattgreenrocks wrote: post #246

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Often worth it for superior UX. The promise of fantastic cross-platform apps still hasn't borne out. We've been promised this since Java, yet converged on shipping Chrome with a webapp.

You can write app that will work on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android using Delphi.

Freepascal is only tool I have found that creates same look and feel across platforms. After so many years of promise and intentions the cross platform issue only solved by Delphi/fpc to a professional level as far as I can tell. It's a metaphor for our industry chasing bling over productivity and generations seeking g rip and replace rather than understanding the constraints the prev gen worked with. Im only 60 but have worked with assembler, Algol, COBOL, Delphi, pascal, Awk, c#, various BASICs from apple II to VB.net. Python and JavaScript for 2 decades. Now most excited about Mojo.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by saagarjha »

lapcat wrote: post #227
saagarjha wrote: post #167

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Interestingly it seems to be 10.6+ in the documentation. They backdeploy like that sometimes I guess.

Read the real documentation, the archive. ;-) https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/Fou...

I’m quite upset we don’t have release notes like this anymore.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by rubymamis »

airstrike wrote: post #328
rubymamis wrote: post #262

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You can use Rust with QML[1]. QML is actually pretty amazing. I've been building my block editor[2] view entirely in QML while the model is in C++. This separation of logic and presentation works great. And yes, there are some crashes sometimes (that I find quite easy to debug thanks to the built-in debugger), but take for example a similar app that's built with Rust and Dart[3], in my testing there were still memory…

You have no idea how valuable and helpful this comment was to me. Thank you very much!

I'm glad!

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by rubymamis »

Klonoar wrote: post #311
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I've built my note-taking app[1] in Qt, and while I worked hard to make it look good, I'm very satisfied with the result. Also, it turns out to be much faster than comparable native apps (performance benchmarks available on the website). [1] https://www.get-plume.com/

You have one of the few Qt-based apps that looks and feels like it belongs on macOS. Really well done.

Thank you!

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by satvikpendem »

allenu wrote: post #187
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And you are now locked down to one environment.

If you’re an indie dev, that can be a good thing. I find it much simpler to ship for iOS and Mac as a solo dev.

Yes, initially it is easier, but it is more difficult to scale to other platforms later on. It's all dependent on how much work you want to do upfront versus in the future.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by rubymamis »

brailsafe wrote: post #310
rubymamis wrote: post #177

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I've built my note-taking app[1] in Qt, and while I worked hard to make it look good, I'm very satisfied with the result. Also, it turns out to be much faster than comparable native apps (performance benchmarks available on the website). [1] https://www.get-plume.com/

No BBedit in the comparison list?

BBedit is awesome but it's not a block editor. Can it render a complex Kanban within the same document? Can it do drag and drop? No.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by rubymamis »

markdoubleyou wrote: post #334
rubymamis wrote: post #177

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I've built my note-taking app[1] in Qt, and while I worked hard to make it look good, I'm very satisfied with the result. Also, it turns out to be much faster than comparable native apps (performance benchmarks available on the website). [1] https://www.get-plume.com/

Looks great! Did you use QT Quick or the Widgets?

I did use Qt Quick and I've been having such a great experience (as someone that used to program GUI imperatively via Qt C++ or using other framework like React/React Native) in my opinion, Qt C++ and Qt Quick is the best combo for a GUI framework. You get the performance of C++ and the simplicity, fluid animations, reactivity of QML, etc... My block editor is build in such a way that the models are in C++ and the views are in QML. This separation of logic and presentation works really well. I'll probably wrote a blog post about it.

Re: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev

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Post by rubymamis »

ghosty141 wrote: post #338
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Looks great! Did you use QT Quick or the Widgets?

Must be Widgets since using QML at work makes me regularly wanna rip my hair out. Its one of the worst frameworks Ive used once you go beyond simple hello world programs.

Nope. See my comment above - I've used QML. I've built a very complex block editor with it. What problems are you facing?
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