Disregarding the fact that this is a written history, I found Cal Paterson’s essay fascinating.
It could be that the biggest disadvantage is professional. Every year you spend in the Minerva monoculture the skills you need interact with normal software atrophy. By the time I left I had pretty much forgotten how to wrestle pip and virtualenv into shape (essential skills for normal Python).
I’ve known people that worked in COBOL for the baking industry but I had no idea that a private Python branch was replacing it.
Electron looks like a good option and I love the naming scheme (of course).
Electron is the cross-platform application shell we originally built for the Atom editor to handle the Chromium/Node.js event loop integration and native APIs.
Of note: Slack is listed as being built with Electron and the snazzy open source project Menubar is too.
Flying Meat is one of my favorite Mac development companies. They’ve announced that one of their oldest apps, VoodooPad, is being acquired by Plausible Labs. I love, Gus at Flying Meat, but Mike Ash is also a superman. I think this is good news for VoodooPad fans.
