Mastodawn

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I despise Liquid Glass because it's all (questionable) looks on the outside and bad UI regressions on the inside.

The 'convergence' (fucking euphemism) between iOS and Mac OS is something I saw coming many years ago and I'm simply waiting for the day when Mac OS will be fully iOS-ified. I'm not looking forward to it. But I will also have left Apple behind before that happens.

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Arcticulate 4d ago

@morrick Thanks to rapid pace of development for Swift-based SDKs on Linux (and official Android support), there’s now an escape hatch for me and other developers who feel disappointed about Apple’s plans to swap the macOS GUI for iPadOS. I am now able to build apps on a Linux machine using SwiftCrossUI (https://swiftcrossui.dev) or Adwaita for Swift (https://aparokshaui.github.io/adwaita-swift/documentation/adwaita/). It’s still early days, but as a dev I can soon skip macOS entirely, all while rewriting my apps for Linux!

SwiftCrossUI

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Arcticulate 4d ago

@morrick I want to point out that it’s a plan E as in ”Emergency”. I don’t *want* to stop using new versions of macOS. If it turns out that macOS improves in the future (improbable but not impossible) it’s still a win-win situation to gain experience in building native apps for multiple operating systems while putting my eggs in more than one OS basket.

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Riccardo Mori 4d ago

@Arcticulate Of course. You do what you have to do. I understand that, for some people, updating to the latest Mac OS version is unavoidable, unfortunately.

If my primary job will eventually force me to update to Tahoe, I’ll buy a second-hand Apple Silicon Mac and use that Mac exclusively for work.

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Arcticulate

@morrick Yeah, unfortunately indeed. I feel like Apple made a Forrest Gump move when they took two decades of MacOS X and just changed their mind of achieving excellence.