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> If Apple products are so compelling why are so many devs using Electron, React Native and Flutter on macOS

That is not how the decision making for cross-platform works. You choose those alternatives knowing that they are crap in many respects, yet accept the trade offs because you want to save money on dev hours.

Heh, the fact that they aren’t mutually exclusive is the problem. Why give someone with mass surveillance ops in other domains access to yet another domain?

That's outright false:

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-pass...

You could have easily fact-checked before forming an opinion, but at least the buffoon down there agreeing with you is worse

Historical data is never a guarantee of future performance. The downside of your attitude is that you can’t really point at the right thing to do, so then you invest your time and effort on the same things, when it could be the case that the rules of the game have changed.

I don’t see the comment as necessarily defeatist. If anything, it’s an invitation to rethink what might work instead, and whether there are things worth lobbying for/against beyond what can be solved at the individual level.

If it ever goes bad, well I hope that that’s an impetus for new open source projects to be started — and with improvements over and lessons learned from incumbent technologies, right at the v1 of said projects.

Funny that you say that because of all the big tech companies, Apple has the best track record at fighting for consumer privacy. And you certainly cannot say that for any of the car makers that currently have an EV lineup.

I’m not sure that that aphorism is helpful, my experience with theory is that it includes time and effort considerations

Do you know that about everyone who is virtue signalling, or are you just assuming that to be a blanket truth about everyone? I don’t think you can ever know the extent to which someone is actually trying, even if imperfect because some things just aren’t within individual control.

You’re not really addressing the obvious though: that at the rate that we are consuming and polluting the earth, we could be pushing ourselves into extinction faster than the sun could just naturally swallow up the earth. I don’t think anyone is debating this eventual death of our star, but our astronomers would very much like to live long enough for us to find another home planet and develop the technology to get there.

Well, any group of 3 people would easily agree on one thing: that they are all just trying to survive. Now, if only what we’re doing to nature is actually killing us…

I mean, if we’re doing this, let’s be honest and go as far as mid-level engineers whose work needs constant correction, as well as the many, many senior engineers out there who are senior only because they lucked out in getting the title during the artificial dev scarcity of the ZIRP eras.

I never really bought in to the anti-Leetcode crowd’s sentiment that it’s irrelevant. It has always mattered as a competitive edge, against other job candidates if you’re an employee or the competition of you’re a company. It only looked irrelevant because opportunities were everywhere during ZIRP, but good times never last.

That still doesn’t sound employable

Ticketing, payroll, point of sale, banking, HFT, e-commerce, warehouse, shipping… how have you not thought of these

I mean, are you gonna die on a hill defending every low-quality content in HN? Because I think it’s perfectly OK to call it out so that moderators can notice and improve. You seem to think that readers have an inherent responsibility to salvage someone else’s bad article.

This article is talking about the AI race as if it’s over when it’s only started. And really, an opinion of the entire market based on a few reddit posts?

Author spoke of compounding moats, yet Apple’s market share, highly performant custom silicon, and capital reserves just flew over his head. HN can have better articles to discuss AI with than this myopic hot take.

Practical answer? I don’t know, man. I’m just building a todo list after all. Heck, I build more complex apps than that but front-end work is at such a high level of abstraction that, realistically, I just never bother. I don’t mind a smaller download size, but it’s just a nice-to-have.

The point about Xcode being complex, I disagree with. Honestly I could think of so many additional features to make my workflow easier.

> This means you've learned to work around its shortcomings.

All software of comparable size and complexity have shortcomings that everyone learns to work around. And a great many of those shortcomings are actually just highly subjective personal preferences. More than half of the complaints in this thread are, to me, a terrible idea.

I agree, but I think that it's difficult to spot memory leaks in SwiftUI because it's such a high-level abstraction framework. When working with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch libraries, it's so much easier to find.

And of course, Apple's UI frameworks != Swift the language itself.

Have you been nothing more than a junior contributor all this time? Because as you mature professionally your knowledge of the system should also be growing

"Current business conditions or issues" -- I think that's because OP wants you to fill that in yourself, so that you might explain your assumptions or the market potential that you see, which might be wildly different from his (i.e. software having little to no moat)

It's OK to have someone to look up to and have an example to follow, but why do you need to have an idol?

What's the analog of rhabdomyolysis for the mind? You're on a path to get it, bud. Not a personal attack, just my and a whole bunch of other people's experiences.

I think you’re kidding but some LinkedIn influencer will come across this and preach that it’s serious

People who disagree with you add to the discussion too

I don’t believe that when he wrote that, he was using his own intelligence

Why wouldn’t I be able to imagine

This counts as ad hominem. Attacking the person and saying nothing of the argument.

How can you be contacted in case of an emergency in the middle of the night?

Leverage over your insurance provider sound good to you?