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meindnoch ◴[] No.45023934[source]
The NextSTEP people have all retired. The real canary in the coalmine was the release of SwiftUI, which to this day is unusable for real UI work, and yet they keep pushing it. A company that once prided itself on its polished user interfaces, is pushing a fundamentally broken UI framework (they even customized the Swift language itself to make it work!), for no sensible reason, other than to pander to web developers socialized on React.

It's a tired trope, but Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave.

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pjmlp ◴[] No.45024491[source]
Both SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose rewrites, despite all their issues, are still miles ahead on WinUI turned out to be after five years, this is how bad Windows desktop development has become.
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1. hu3 ◴[] No.45025204[source]
that's a very low bar for whataboutism
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2. pjmlp ◴[] No.45025325[source]
There is nothing whataboutism on my comment, other than asserting the fact that Apple and Google are currently much better at execution than Microsoft, in what concerns their OSes.