I know you’re saying that in a subjective way, and definitely the percentage of non-Cocoa apps have gone up, but I’m not sure if they’re dead. In fact, I feel that they are thriving once again in 2020 — a lot of indie devs that care about making Mac-assed Mac apps[0] are present and are releasing great apps and replacing ones that were filled with Electron.
Some examples that pop up in my mind: NetNewsWire 5[1] (an RSS feed reader), Shrungs[2] (a Cocoa Slack client), MimeStream[3] (a Gmail email reader), Chime[4] (a Go IDE that’s entirely Cocoa! I seriously considered learning Go because of this app), ProxyMan[5], and I can go on and on...
My feeling is that Electron got a bit of traction in like 2014~6 but people started to realize they really do like Cocoa better.
I know you’re saying that in a subjective way, and definitely the percentage of non-Cocoa apps have gone up, but I’m not sure if they’re dead. In fact, I feel that they are thriving once again in 2020 — a lot of indie devs that care about making Mac-assed Mac apps[0] are present and are releasing great apps and replacing ones that were filled with Electron.
Some examples that pop up in my mind: NetNewsWire 5[1] (an RSS feed reader), Shrungs[2] (a Cocoa Slack client), MimeStream[3] (a Gmail email reader), Chime[4] (a Go IDE that’s entirely Cocoa! I seriously considered learning Go because of this app), ProxyMan[5], and I can go on and on...
My feeling is that Electron got a bit of traction in like 2014~6 but people started to realize they really do like Cocoa better.
[0]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/20/mac-assed-mac-a...
[1]: https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
[2]: https://shrugs.app/
[3]: https://mimestream.com/
[4]: https://www.chimehq.com/
[5]: https://proxyman.io/