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Sure, if you write the GUI portions in the native toolkit and factor out the backend into your cross-platform language of choice.



I would argue that's not really a "first-class" developer experience from the perspective of developing for Apple products on a Mac.


The "first class" experience for developing on a Mac would be to develop only for the Mac. If you're not doing that, your job is going to be a bit more difficult.


Yes, I'm aware. But it's a bit weird to say the developer experience on Linux is first-class. For things that don't have a GUI, sure. But that's not what the discussion was about.


I remember watching the linux communities response to the mono project and realizing it was sort of hopeless.




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