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It’s pretty easy to understand.

VSCode was an electron app from day one and never tried to be a first-class Mac app while the only reason 1Password is around today is because customers loved having a lightweight, native manager that always was quick to support new OS features.

Essentially, native Mac apps switching to electron is a bait and switch.

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And I would say VSCode has its own annoyances but due to the fact there are few other good options (that are native Mac at least) its still praised.

Nova is a good native Mac option

I looked at it when it first came out but not since, does it have a typescript debugger yet?

Yup, via LSP just like Visual Studio Code.

There were a couple quirks in the early days but it improved at a rapid clip.

I'm not a Mac user these days, what OS features will it be missing now?

Drag and drop, touchID, AppleWatch unlock, I suppose native menubar (1password mini) access might be on the table... Maybe keyboard clearing (of OTPs).. Universal clipboard?

It’s also always fun to accidentally zoom in on the entire UI of the Electron app, pushing all the toolbars off-screen. This has happened to me multiple times in nearly every Electron app I’ve used, with VS Code being the most common.

Touch ID, Apple Watch unlock, drag and drop, and universal clipboard support all still work on 1Password 8 (just tried it out).

It's almost like they have a native Rust backend that makes it possible for them to still use platform-specific features like that...

Gotcha, thanks. On Windows, Hello works, so I would hope that touchID/applewatch would as well. TIL about drag and drop. Neat!

If they drop touch ID/watch then idk what I'll do. Those are the best features IMO

I'm actually sort of worried drag and drop won't work anymore with their menu bar pop up

Oh that's neat, I didn't even know that was a feature. (Part of why I'm asking, I'm always wondering if there's good ways to use something that I don't know about.)

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