SMRTR ProgrammingAug 28, 2025Lobsters

Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn’t Be So Difficult

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Mac and iOS development remains unnecessarily complex despite superior approaches existing decades ago. In the 1990s, UserLand Frontier demonstrated frictionless app development with a scripting system that allowed immediate code changes without restarts and simple persistence through a hash-table database. Modern developers still face constant build-run cycles and complex languages when a purpose-built scripting language could make app development faster and more accessible.

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