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It's weird to write MacOS specific software in this era.

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Why? If I was writing this I would write it for my OS.

Why would I write it for anything else?

I assume that’s what the author did.

You've curiously left out which platform it's not weird to write software for.

Is there only one platform that's not weird, or is MacOS the only weird platform?

Some of the best platforms and software are weird. Get over it.

I write applications that run the same on all three main desktop platforms (typically): Mac, Windows, Linux. Writing an app for any single desktop platform is weird, unless the application uses some sort of specific functionality of that platform. In my case, I use Qt, but I've also written applications which had three UI drivers (X11/Win32/MacOS).

Some of us think it's weird to accept the compromises you have to make to write cross-platform software, especially when you are using AI to write or help write the app.

What compromises? All three platforms are well supported by Qt. In my experience AI can take an app written for any one platform and port it to the others (with an abstract indirect UI interface layer) with no issues.

There's nothing about this specific app that exploits any OS-dependent functionality.

do you mean they should've spent more time writing for other platforms or do you insinuate that they should've shipped a chromium browser instead of writing native software?

The former, although the latter (or simply making a web app) is also a legitimate solution.

Is it?

I'm observing the largest tech companies in the world release macOS/iOS-first or only, and consequently supports said version the best in this era.

The unstoppable "rewrite it in Swift!" vs the insurmountable "where's the Windows version?"

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