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it seems like the flurry of cheap or free high-quality IDEs and the consolidation (basically it's VS Code, IntelliJ or Eclipse these days) directly coincided with the end of big-corporate desktop app developments. net/WPF -> UWP -> WTF, Apple with Cocoa -> WTF, and Linux never got around to settle on one way of packaging applications and dependencies or on window managers or on. All major OS platforms have alienated developers. Today's young people aren't interested in programming any more, they're more interested in Tiktok or to fight on the political level. These people have since found employment at big companies, removing both the time and the ability to work on side gigs (hard to do a side gig when you're staring at a screen for 40+ hours a week, and why bother with side gigs when your employer demands copyright even over stuff you do on your own time?). the people who made the really innovative apps in the golden age were highschool and college students. These days, particularly Apple is known for outright ripping off ideas from popular App Store apps. Utilities from file management (Winrar, Winzip, Total Commander) over media players (Winamp) to task managers have been absorbed by the operating systems. Thunderbird, Mozilla, LibreOffice) but they lack funding so they struggle along, mostly used by those not wanting to spend money on the above-mentioned pay products there are a bit of open-source efforts (e.g. SAP) offers so many options that it's incredibly hard for new players to gain a foothold - you need to identify some niche, build it out well enough to offer an actual benefit and market the hell out of your idea, and maybe in 0.1% you have a chance at lucking out.

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Business software has pretty much consolidated and the existing tooling from office suites to data warehouse and workflow stuff (i.e. the golden ages (which I'd say are the mid-90s to 2010-ish) are over. > It's not just Mac software - desktop software in general seems to be stagnating. This difference probably explains people's very polarised and simultaneously valid responses to VS Code.

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There is no doubt at all that it repaints more slowly than some editors when scrolling down through code line-by-line or page-by-page with the arrow keys etc., because of all the code actions that fire off when the cursor moves.īut it is not noticeably laggy when scrolling with a trackpad, because the cursor does not move. One thing I would observe about speed complaints in VS Code is that they come from people who navigate through text mostly through keys people with a vi or emacs back-story. It might show a bit of keyboard latency but the Remote SSH mode more than makes up for this, for me the sheer flexibility it offers me as a developer means I am going to ignore a bit of general latency.Īnd we've put up with worse in IDEs and programmers' editors, for sure. In my experience VS Code is plenty quick enough, not least when I am editing something inside a VM or on a remote server using the Remote SSH mode.

Not least because one of the apps I used to use - Panic's Coda - had really severe keyboard lag issues in some situations, on hardware that should have been fine with it. I really have trouble with the idea that VS Code is 'clunky'. I use git and text for almost everything I do, unless I can't or when a picture helps.Īnd I don't play games on my laptop anymore. I've ditched making VSCode and IntelliJ like vim and made neovim like VSCode.

I always use it before I hit the App Store. I also love that I can install/update native apps from it. I'm happy running a FreeBSD server, but I want my workstation to not require a lot of planning. Even with Linux it can be a pain to hit the sweet spot between up-to-date and DIY. The killer app for me in a lot of ways is just Homebrew. The rest of my GUI stuff is largely cross platform (and some electron) But I do like it better on macos than Windows. Postico - It's weird that I like a single DB UI. Omnigraffle - When I need to hand-layout a diagram it's my favorite ever

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Pixelmator Pro - it's what Photoshop used to be to me 20 years ago iTerm2 - it works right, it feels responsive. 3rd party Mac apps that I like better than any of their counterparts on any OS are:

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