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You did not build a Mac app, you built a webpage in a shell of a Mac app…

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This is an unkind nitpick of something someone has made.

It’s an app that runs on a Mac. What framework it’s running on doesn’t make it less of an app.

well it's not a Mac app.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Guidelines don't dictate what an app is, they're just fucking GUIDELINES

Electron is the future of Mac apps. You just haven't fully coped with it yet.

Agreed, thanks.

I do think people will have certain expectations when they hear "Mac app", though. Though at the same time, Electron is a bad word on HN. The ideal situation for marketing would be additional support for Windows/Linux so that it can be called a cross-platform app.

This might be a good thing, since it means it could be more easily ported to Windows and Linux as well

This is why I'm using Electron. Lower effort to distribute for other operating systems.

Looking forward to seeing it on Windows and Linux then! I don't have a mac at the moment myself.

I actually had a similar idea to yours using python but ended up fizzling out on the idea after a bit as other projects came up.

Is it an app? Does it run on a Mac? Then it is a Mac app

So by your standard if I embed a windows emulator that runs a windows app I have created a Mac app?

Yes, if you can embed Windows in a Mac app, you have created a Mac app. Parallels is a Mac app, too. If it looks like a duck and quacks like duck, it's a duck.

That’s the thing. Electron apps and co do not quack like a duck. They feel terrible and out of place in the macOS ecosystem. They are not Mac apps.

And the same is true of some apps made by Apple framework too! Catalyst apps are (almost always) terrible, including the ones done by Apple. The only exception I’m aware of is Messages, and even that one is not perfect.

They are apps that happen to run on a Mac. Not Mac apps.

Yes - the mac app is not the windows app though, it is the entire package of emulator + windows + windows app.

If it's not a mac app then what exactly is executing on the mac?

Appreciate you checking it out.

one could say the same of Slack, WhatsApp, Zoom, etc..

And I do say it.

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