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But have you actually used a Catalyst app on mac? They're terrible ports as it is right now.


Eh, Catalyst apps are as good or bad as the developer wants them to be. Voice Memos and "Find My" on the Mac are two fantastic Catalyst apps, and certainly better than Electron.

Anyways Catalyst won't even be relevant in the long term, once iPhone apps are written in SwiftUI


Interestingly there's a few mentions of Catalyst improvements in the Xcode 12 release notes:

> When bringing iPad apps to macOS, you can now use the Optimize Interface for Mac target setting to use native macOS controls and Mac resolution

Hopefully this means Catalyst apps will feel a little more like actual Mac apps.


As bad as Electron? I think not.


I often close the Twitter app and Apple's news and stock apps on my Mac mini because the performance is terrible. Hoping they've spent time tuning this more.




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