Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-assed App in 2026

Link: https://pfandrade.me/blog/mac-assed-swiftui-app/Paulo Andrade, creator of Secrets and Shopie: There was a time when Mac apps felt unapologetically Mac. Panic, Omni, Cultured Code, Bare Bones, Sofa. The years just before the iPhone SDK were probably peak Mac-assedness. Then Apple's center of gravity shifted toward the iPhone.Now we have Electron, Catalyst, and iPadOS apps on the Mac. And even Apple's SwiftUI apps often sand off the very behaviors that made Mac software feel great in the first place. SwiftUI was announced at WWDC in 2019, almost exactly 7 years ago now. It was meant to be a unified toolkit that would allow you to build apps for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and any future platforms Apple might release.Most Apple developers would agree that SwiftUI has failed to deliver on that promise. In fact, Paulo's post is not the first I've read about SwiftUI's various inadequacies. Michael Tsai recently made a list of grievances professional SwiftUI developers have with…