Reading up on AppKit
3 deep · digging since apr 18
- SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity: Will it ever stop feeling like a beta? — Yakov Manshin
SwiftUI after seven years remains unstable, performs poorly, and lacks API stability, forcing workarounds and reflecting Apple’s lowered quality standards.
- Native all the way, until you need text
A veteran macOS developer finds that native Apple frameworks fail to support rich Markdown chat UIs, making Electron and WebKit more practical despite developer criticism.
- Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
A 2023 Hacker News discussion laments the decline of idiomatic design in web and software UIs, citing inconsistent patterns, poor usability, and loss of platform conventions.