Tell HN: Building a universal electron app for Mac is a complete nightmare

Re:Tell HN: Building a universal electron app for Mac is a c... by xet7 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:24AM (#33395223)

Is any other way to develop Mac app any easier?

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Re:Tell HN: Building a universal electron app for Mac is a c... by b20000 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:26AM (#33395251)

yes, use objective C or c++ and osx frameworks

or use a cross platform c++ toolkit like juce

avoid web garbage for desktop apps

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Re:Tell HN: Building a universal electron app for Mac is a c... by eyelidlessness on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:40AM (#33395386)

Or Swift, which will feel a lot more at home for JS/TS developers.

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Re:Tell HN: Building a universal electron app for Mac is a c... by toastal on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:06PM (#33395635)

CLI and TUIs still work too

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Re:Tell HN: Building a universal electron app for Mac is a c... by bartvk on Sunday October 30, 2022 @04:59PM (#33398617)

Objective-C? I can't imagine anyone would use that for a new project.

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Re:Tell HN: Building a universal electron app for Mac is a c... by superchroma on Sunday October 30, 2022 @11:33AM (#33395315)

If you like .NET, Avalonia is an option which targets OSX in addition to other platforms.

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Re:Tell HN: Building a universal electron app for Mac is a c... by cercatrova on Sunday October 30, 2022 @10:40PM (#33401467)

Flutter works well for cross platform.

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