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Crusty developers gonna crust?

Off the top of my head, these apps are fairly recent and pretty great.

  - OBS (obsproject.com)
  - Visual Studio Code
  - Tower (git-tower.com)
  - Timing (timingapp.com)

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Note that neither OBS nor Visual Studio Code are native mac apps.

One need only open the OBS preferences to see just how non-native: https://i.imgur.com/At8MQPJ.png

In practical terms though, who cares? This reminds me of the debate about Wine being integrated with Steam before Proton came out. A big argument against was that it would kill the native Linux game market. But then valve did it anyway and the compatibility layer was so seamless that to the end user you would never notice it was a windows game so you have no practical reason to care.

VS Code works incredible on MacOS despite not being native.

You're commenting on the article. In that context, it is every bit as relevant.

>VS Code works incredible on MacOS despite not being native.

It's a bit of a dog on my machine. I only use it for one particular plugin.

OBS is approaching ten years old though [1]...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBS_Studio

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