macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons

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.

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.

UI on Windows is a lost cause at this point. It's over. Windows UI is in the state the Wehrmacht was on April 29, 1945. Fragmented, beaten, disillusioned, out of fuel.