This doesn't exactly instill confidence in Apple's competence.
This doesn't exactly instill confidence in Apple's competence.
Electron used non-public pieces to workaround an issue with Apple code which Apple knew about and was not interested to address, now it's broken after it changed. Nothing new.
Each program contains its own version of Electron. How is Apple going to know the version of Electron your particular version of your particular app that you installed on one particular date perhaps years in the past works?
n apps in the world × n versions of Electron
The problem isn't Apple. It's that the developer of your program is using an outdated version of Electron, or it's put out an update and you haven't updated.
There are patches out now, but only after Apple released the OS to the entire team world and people reported the issue to the Electron team.
Imo, Electron is sufficiently popular that somebody should test at least one Electron app on a major new OS version sometime before releasing it as done! Any app would've worked, and there's plenty of popular ones, as this post shows.
That's why they release betas early -- that gives each project an opportunity to run their own test suites, however comprehensive they may be.
It's a little hard to hold Apple responsible when there are a lot of app teams in a better position to catch this than Apple, and apparently none of them did.
(Maybe it was a late change in Tahoe? Still, no one found it in the RC either it seems.)
Why measure if it's going to be ignored.
Yes, but this is a straw man
> even "popular" ones.
No, this is possible, but again, just drain the bathwater of "all, everything, comprehensive 100%" while blocking the baby of glaringly obvious system-wide visible bugs any good 9x% testing would've caught.
Yet the electron team didn't catch it, nor any of the many apps that use electron, despite beta access. Hm...