From Lisa Clascal, used until the Mac got its own development environment in MPW and Object Pascal, to Swift, Apple has changed direction every decade.
Objective C
Does that app use Electron, Catalyst, SwiftUI, AppKit, or is it an iPhone app? How to find out easily.
A firsthand account of how the Mac human interface was developed 40 years ago for the Lisa, and resources for learning to code for macOS.
is Swift somehow superior to Objective-C? Or is it a second-class language for macOS? Do those questions have any meaning at all?
How many apps should launch faster, deliver better performance, be smaller, and use less memory than they have in the past.
What more is needed if Swift is going to realise its promise as a scripting language for macOS?
Simply the best development environment, which now has superb support for AppleScript Objective-C. At half the price too.
Which of the friendly IDEs supports the creation of apps with ‘proper’ interfaces?
A personal selection of some excellent and fascinating programming environments for OS X.
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