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by soapdog 2239 days ago
I guess Objective-C/Cocoa might have not changed much between the last HyperEdit version and now. If the developer organized his codebase well, replacing the old webview with the new stuff and so on should be less work than rewriting the whole app (IMHO).

I haven't coded for the mac in more than a decade but what I remember from ObjC/Cocoa was that it was quite pleasant to use and very powerful. By powerful I mean that the ratio between LoC and smiles on my face was skewed towards smiling.
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elsurudo 2239 days ago
That's true. I maintain a couple of obj-C iOS apps (one of those ~10 years old) and apart from framework upgrades (iOS 6-7 was a big one) and dealing with a few deprecations, it's been surprisingly friction-free.

macOS is probably even more stable.

Swift, on the other hand... it's been a moving target for sure, and I'm glad I didn't just rewrite everything (like I did for one app).

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