TextKit 2 – The Promised Land
https://blog.krzyzanowskim.com/2025/08/14/textkit-2-the-promised-land/
#HackerNews #TextKit2 #PromisedLand #Development #BlogTech #Innovation
After 4 years with Apple's TextKit 2: The promised 'better' text engine has unstable scrolling, unreliable height estimates, and viewport issues so bad that even Apple's TextEdit suffers from them. Good architecture, but the implementation makes it frustratingly difficult for real-world apps.
Account auto-completion has arrived in #Oliphaunt!
Start typing @ in the composer and you’ll get a native-style auto-completion window — right at the caret, just like in Xcode. No clunky bars or overlays — this is proper #Mac behaviour.
It’ll be available in the next build.
Is #Oliphaunt the first Mastodon client to do it like this?
#TextKit #TextKit2 #NSTextView #Cocoa #AppKit #Swift #SwiftUI #macOS #MacDev #macOSDev
Gosh there really isn’t a sanctioned way to go from NSTextRange to NSRange, is there? #iOS #TextKit2
I suppose @krzyzanowskim would know if there was
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