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MacOS Gemini Client

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Sun Sep 13 02:47:12 BST 2020

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On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 10:05:05PM -0230, Peter Deal wrote:

Hello Geminauts!

I’d like to announce that I’ve created a Gemini client for MacOS. It’s a graphical client that uses native OS UI elements. You can check it out at

https://github.com/dealpete/sputnik

This is great! Please let me know if I can help you get unstuck onanything; I know the Apple dev world pretty well.

I’ve written a little gemlog post about some of my design decisions here

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/dealpete/

You mentioned in your post that SwiftUI lacks some capabilties comparedto AppKit, and that's true. In its first release year it has really beenkind of a preview. This year's release does a lot to make it feel morecomplete. That's currently in Xcode 12 beta. Here's an introduction tothe changes (video + transcript):

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10041/