It’s a tiresome exercise to enumerate all of the ways in which Apple is eating the seed corn by making their platform hostile to the type of people who build the highest margin part of their platform. The first time I remember being irked was when it was some obscure incantation to get aarch64-darwin to accept bash instead of zsh without complaint, but the endlessly tightening screws around quasi-documented “quarantine” permission bits on executables that no one paid 30% tax on to do an HTTP request was when it started getting concerning. It’s been going downhill since. sudo not meaning sudo is pretty much the point when it went to “actively fight upgrades, even security patches, because the dominant threat actor is the vendor”. The rootkit is coming from inside the house.
I don’t even understand this as a pro-business bias: the people who build Sublime and Zed run businesses. Small (relatively) businesses, the kind we ostensibly cheer for.
It’s like a pro-my-retirement account bias or something. When did OG hackers start taking the side of the guy on the screen in the Orwell ad against the side of the gal with the hammer?
Strangely, it’s not doing this to me, at all, with the non-beta Sequoia and using Nova. I’ve been happily coding away without that happening.
Not saying this isn’t happening for other people, of course! But it must be some odd interaction between Sublime or Zed and Sequoia, not a new intentional feature affecting everyone or every editor.
