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Re:How Swift 5.3 enhances SwiftUI’s DSL by adamnemecek on Sunday September 13, 2020 @05:14PM (#24463995)
Too bad this behemoth doesn't care about cross-platform.
Re:How Swift 5.3 enhances SwiftUI’s DSL by readarticle on Sunday September 13, 2020 @05:47PM (#24464198)
Too bad disabled users don’t either.

Cross platform wasn’t even mentioned or implied in your original comment by the way, it was edited into the second one where you narrowed an “arthritic, farsighted Arabic speaking user” into “arthritic”.

Re:How Swift 5.3 enhances SwiftUI’s DSL by adamnemecek on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:23PM (#24464438)
It wasn't mentioned but that doesn't mean that I don't care about it.
Re:How Swift 5.3 enhances SwiftUI’s DSL by codetrotter on Sunday September 13, 2020 @11:05PM (#24466350)
I used to be very strongly in favor of cross-platform but I have come to realize that in a lot of cases that while it is true for us as developers that cross-platform is great because it means a bigger audience, it is easily worse for your users.

I’d rather pay $50 for a native macOS application that uses the UI toolkits offered by its platform and respects the conventions and the system as a whole, than to pay $5 for an application that allegedly does the same thing but which feels broken, sluggish and/or incoherent because its developers are making something cross-platform.

There are some exceptions to this – some developers do pull it off, and if what they make is both good quality and performant and the tool is offering something of exceptional value to me then I will use it. But in the general case, I will avoid the non-native experience.

All of that being said, I still think it is cool that people invest time in exploring making their own GUI frameworks. All I am saying is that it has a cost for the users a lot of the time.

Re:How Swift 5.3 enhances SwiftUI’s DSL by pjmlp on Monday September 14, 2020 @05:39AM (#24468349)
It does, when one uses toolkits that wrap platform APIs.