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Comment by milani | Hacker News Reader

Why "written in Swift" is of any importance to be in the title?

Not sure about this specific app, (it's unlikely to be heavy) but it's a nice indicator of "native". As opposed to yet another electron / java / whatever heavy runtime app.

Its OSS. The language is good to know for anyone who might be interested in assisting.

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Please don't mention anything related to software development, this upsets the hackers.

Same reason you see engine details mentioned when talking about cars at car forums.

Engines are part of the user experience in the car though, ObjC/Swift wouldn't matter here.

Kind of does considering it is a native application, not written in javascript, python, java or some else not as performant in the context of macs.

Of course the choice of programming language can be part of the user experience. It directly affects CPU time and memory usage, it hints at how well the platform integration is and how big the download size is going to be.

If the title said "Hidden Bar: macOS utility to hide unused menubar icons, written in JS (Electron)", I wouldn't even have considered clicking the link to read more about the project, let alone install the software, because an Electron based software to do such a minor thing like hiding menu items is never going to deliver an acceptable user experience for me.

Although I got down votes, but I dont regret my question. Now I know why it is important for people to mention the language of a project. It makes sense now.

well, I mean, in that it’s not some JavaScript nonsense that gobbles a GB or so of ram for no readily explicable reason, it is pretty important to the user experience.

The same reason other projects mention "in Rust" "in Haskell" etc.

Well, I dont get them as well.

Do you get it when some app or game says which operating system it's for?

Apples and oranges.

As a user, I need to know which operating system an app runs on, otherwise I might not be able to run it.

The language used to write it plays no role in that.

This is an open source project, where you need to know if you know how to edit/fix/compile it if needed.

I use (directly or indirectly) thousands of OS projects. I can do those things for a handful, and maybe a few dozen in theory. I wouldn't stop using lots of great utilities just because I don't know Go.

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