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The Anatomy of a macOS App

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13415 ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.46184648[source]
I don't follow - can you elaborate?
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bigyabai ◴[] 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. ux266478 ◴[] No.46186864{3}[source]
statically linking dependencies is a trivial change in a build script. why are you acting like its some esoteric forbidden art?