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[-] shapis@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago
[-] railsdev@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’d kill for an IDE on macOS that uses the native UI. I guess my hot take when it comes to GUI applications is: respect the platform you’re running on. Your core codebase should be separate from the UI in a way that the application looks like it was written by Apple on macOS, Microsoft on Windows, Google on Android, etc.

I could go on forever about this but some examples:

  • VS Code, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc all lose their minds and crash when moving a file while it’s open on macOS, a limitation that doesn’t exist in UNIX-based file systems. Did they port some FAT/NTFS driver somehow? You also can’t Command + Click the title of the document to pull it up in Finder.
  • Firefox, while I love it to death looks like a clunky Windows application
  • Oh yeah, Google Chrome looks way off too
  • GIMP looks like GTK because it is GTK on macOS, Windows
  • Electron apps that are just wrappers around websites
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