[twarge]

This sort of high performance minimalism is precisely what makes the Mac app ecosystem great. Not because you can't write the same thing on other platforms, but because everyone who cares about it has condensed on the Mac platform.

Would love to see this adopt the document-based app API and the toolbar API.

[hipadev23]

> because everyone who cares about it has condensed on the Mac platform

This elitist and incorrect viewpoint has plagued macs for a very long time. I wish it would die.

[vunderba]

Did you read the post at all?

"Full disclosure: it's built with Electron. I originally wrote it in Swift but couldn't get the editor experience to where I wanted it. Now it supports autocomplete, multi-cursor editing, and moving the cursor between cells just like you'd expect from JupyterLab or VS Code"

It's not a native Mac app, it's a standard electron app.

[earthnail]

And yet, the Satyrn author created sth that is more minimal and elegant than the options that existed before. And despite being in Electron and therefore not at all Mac specific, the target audience will almost exclusively run a Mac. Not because you need a Mac to run it, but because the kind of person who cares about such detail will have chosen an OS that cares a lot about details.

[hu3]

mac minimalism doesn't even come close to tiling window managers such as i3 or jupyter terminal clients such as euporie. So even your elitism is misinformed.

[behnamoh]

> This sort of high performance minimalism is precisely what makes the Mac app ecosystem great. Not because you can't write the same thing on other platforms, but because everyone who cares about it has condensed on the Mac platform.

Meh. Most apps like this are built for the Mac because a lot of programmers use Macs. If anything, Apple makes it difficult to develop for macOS because they keep breaking APIs with each update.

[samatman]

> Most apps like this are built for the Mac because

People with Macs have money, and are willing to use it to pay for software.

Not that deep.

[azinman2]

> Apple makes it difficult to develop for macOS because they keep breaking APIs with each update.

Like what

[newaccount74]

Every macOS release breaks a few things, but to be honest it's not much of an issue.

Here are some recent things that required code changes from developers:

- disabling user interaction when trying to request items from the keychain

- views no longer clipping to bounds by default

- installing login items and background services

The latter two were understandable, because they were caused by new features, but some are just caused by a lack of testing.

It's not a big deal, and I'm sure Electron apps have similar issues, but app developers do have to put in some work to make sure their apps keep working properly on macOS.

[behnamoh]

Ask the developer of BetterDummy (aka BetterDisplay).

[llamaimperative]

Pretty sure that’s what they’re saying

[behnamoh]

Pretty sure that's not what they're saying.