Steve Troughton-Smith

I think the Journal app in macOS Tahoe is the first first-party Mac Catalyst app* to rely on rich text editing, traditionally a pretty weak spot along Catalyst's API surface (text editing and document management in general). Hopefully that kind of dogfooding will /finally/ close that gap.

*Swift Playground, also Catalyst, uses some variation of Xcode's text editor, which is a whole other thing

Jun 20, 2025 at 9:15amIvory for Mac
Show threadNumeric CitizenJun 20, 2025
@stroughtonsmith I thought that Catalyst was being silently abandoned…
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithJun 20, 2025
@numericcitizen it's in more use than ever, now used for Journal, Phone and the new Facetime, and in no place that it's been adopted has it been reduced or removed
Show threadPieter OmvleeJun 20, 2025
@stroughtonsmith @numericcitizen no I have the idea its strongest support is inside Apple. They don’t seem to be making Mac apps with any other technology anymore. This is what the Mac is now, it seems? 🤨
Show threadNumeric CitizenJun 20, 2025
@pieteromvlee Craft Docs is a Catalyst app and it’s really good…
Show threadPieter OmvleeJun 20, 2025
@numericcitizen not saying they’d all be bad but just that it’s weird that Apple has stopped making apps with AppKit, or perhaps even SwiftUI. It’s all Catalyst for the Mac
Show threadNumeric CitizenJun 20, 2025
@pieteromvlee maybe devs with AppKit knowledge are becoming harder to find? Write once, deploy everywhere might be more tempting these days with so many platforms.
Show threadPieter OmvleeJun 20, 2025
@numericcitizen for sure
Show threadJoseph CurranJun 20, 2025
@stroughtonsmith What do you make of the way line breaks are handled in Journal? They seem to be styled as doubles on a single line break, which makes inputting poetry or addresses difficult. It’s frustrating me.