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The Anatomy of a macOS App

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278 points elashri | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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13415 ◴[07 Dec 25 16:27 UTC] No.46182886[source]▶
No wonder everyone is building web apps. Operating systems are doing their best to make themselves obsolete.
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mikecsh ◴[07 Dec 25 20:06 UTC] No.46184648[source]▶
I don't follow - can you elaborate?
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bigyabai ◴[07 Dec 25 21:46 UTC] No.46185499[source]▶
If developers have to static-link all their libraries to ship a Mac-native app, you're already doing most of the work to ship a cross-platform web runtime like Electron.

Therefore it's not super surprising that successful products like Discord/Slack/Spotify gave up on a good native experience decades ago.

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1. dagmx ◴[07 Dec 25 23:44 UTC] No.46186602[source]▶
Why do you believe you need to static link to ship a Mac native app?

There’s no such requirement. Tons of Mac apps bundle dylibs within them.