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by Shadonototro 1910 days ago
macOS is just a joy to develop with, unix like environment, beautiful desktop, easy to use frameworks

the environment is clean and enables people to do what they want, even if XCode is a piece of garbage shit, it gets the job done

the overall quality of Apple apps encourages devs to apply the same principles, easy to use and beautifully designed apps

in comparison, when you see official Windows metro/fluent apps looking so boring, it doesn't encourage people to develop natively

then you have the details that kills it, lack of proper windows store, lack of people native way of distributing apps (exe? msi? vsx? appbundle? zip my 100's dotnet dlls?) it makes you not want to even start

even Microsoft is ditching all that crap and rewriting their native apps with electron, wich says a lot about the windows ecosystem (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/4/22213300/microsoft-one-out...)