It’s difficult not to want to just scrap #AppKit and go all-in on #Electron or #Tauri.
If my app was a macOS-exclusive, going the native route would be no problem - but this is not the case… I do want my notes app to be available on all the major platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and the web).
Building a native app for each platform is a massive undertaking - even for a large team of developers, let alone a single person. In fact, I would argue it’s naive to believe one person can realistically achieve this (even with LLMs). Sure, it's *possible*, but keep in mind, that you’ll be spending an enormous amount of time pushing every feature to every platform, while your competition using Electron and React Native move much faster.
This becomes a big problem from a business perspective. Customers expect you to keep up with the competition, but that is nearly impossible when you're maintaining five separate codebases instead of just two (Electron and React Native where much of the code can be shared).
If this project was purely for the sake of business, I probably made the wrong choice by going native 😅 But hey, I'm new to programming, so I think it's good that I'm making all these choices and learning from them. This project is about learning the craft of programming. Of course, I'd love for this project to eventually make a living income - that'd be a dream come true.
I started my Software Engineering degree ≈2,5 years ago. I had coded before that, but just some pretty basic Remix and Next.js. I would barely even call that real programming considering how little logic was involved (mostly just mutating state values) to what I'm doing now with AppKit where I'm working with low-level APIs that are poorly documented. #dev