With macOS Mojave, Apple is adding support to run UIKit apps on macOS without the requirement of rewriting the UI in AppKit. While this isn’t yet something that’s officially supported for third-party developers, let’s explore what to expect in 2019 and how to try it out today.
Coincidentally, macOS Mojave has been released today as well, so head on over to the Mac App Store and update your Macs.
Ok i know this comment is somewhat off topic, but i after reading a previous comment about freebsd i want to highlight something i love about macOS which I also fear might some day be gone with how ios is closing in more and more..
It rarely happens but some times (often during the 24h+ awake during deadline sessions) some application might freeze, like photoshop. What have saved me several times is the kill -CONT pid command, most of the time when things go crazy in macos the os just freeze the applications going havoc and you can unfreeze them, seems no one that i ever worked with knew about that which is a shame since its real usefull and can save hours of work, anyway. That simple trick showcase what for me is the true power of macos (the unix core). It seems every year we slowly creep further and further away from that origin.
Adding light weight ios apps is of course a positive thing which might be good, but it might also in the future plague the os where all apps are a horrible mess of different gui standards. The uniform gui have also been something that i used to love about macos.. This release is marking clearly where macos future is, and it can be a great one or a horrible one.
edit: n/m
Edited 2018-09-26 23:20 UTC