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steve1977today at 7:04 AM1 replyview on HN

I mean Cocoa and SwiftUI are more consistent in the sense that a lot of stuff automatically adapts when Apple changes styling. And they certainly have less churn and more focus compared to Microsoft.

Basically it's been Objective-C and Cocoa since around 2000, later on Swift and then also SwiftUI. That's not too bad for 25 years.

And in contrast to MS, you didn't get abandoned when you were sticking to the official frameworks. Quite contrary, you basically got the switches from PowerPC to x86 to ARM almost for free for example.

Apple is not perfect by any means, but in this regard I truly think they are ahead of Microsoft.


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pjmlptoday at 8:15 AM

Sure, if we ignore the stuff and bugs they still have, the missing features in SwiftUI and performance regressions, or the iPhonisms brought to macOS with Catalyst.

The reboot of frameworks based in OpenGL with the Metal rewrite.

And many other things I am not bothering with since all those OS System N releases, A/UX UI framework, Teligent based documents,....

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