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> I hope everyone has noticed the shift in macOS to be something more like iOS. That’s good for most users, but not really for software engineers.

I've been saying this for a long time. I find it funny so many developers use and love macOS. You are clearly not the target audience and in fact, lots of decisions Apple makes go against making macOS a nice development environment.

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> You are clearly not the target audience

I disagree. I mean, I know we're not the only target audience. But we're clearly an important one. They literally announce their new software releases at their developer's conference. macOS is also the only platform you can develop iOS apps on. So if nothing else, macOS has to be nice to developers for iOS's sake.

For me, the core things that makes macOS great for development haven't changed. All they've really done is make iOS and macOS work together more cohesively.

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