> On Sep 30, 2019, at 5:57 PM, Sam Ryan wrote: > > I tried a completely new approach - Electron. I have found Electron to be > surprisingly quick to prototype, easy to bridge to c++, and is cross platform > (non mobile at least). I would not have recommended a non-native approach > until recently, but for what it is worth, I've come to realise this is one of > the better options available these days. YMMV.
Interesting. > On Sep 30, 2019, at 7:00 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > If you don't mind coding in JavaScript, don't care about Mac UI guidelines, > and aren't shy about shipping a 200MB+ app that has an entire freakin' web > browser embedded in it… > > (Sorry for the grumpiness. I'm just sick of all the "Mac apps" that are just > Electron-based web pages, e.g. Slack.) Also interesting. I found John Gruber's comments on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps enlightening. https://daringfireball.net/2018/12/electron_and_the_decline_of_native_apps --Richard Charles _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
