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How HN took it
10 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 2 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Design: 4 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 3 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful website and library UI
From 2 comments
This is excessively beautiful, both the website and the library's UI. But I have to ask: what's the rationale on dedicating such an elaborate and gorgeous website for just a…
publicdebates on HNI love how beautiful and creative the website header is while being a fragment of what it does. Fantastic work!
0xb0565e486 on HN
Attention to detail, drag and drop handled well
From 2 comments
Love the attention to detail here. Getting drag and drop right is hard, it's so much more complex than you might think.
iamcalledrob on HNThis is quite beautiful. I had a somewhat similar use case last year and built something that wasn't this polished. The only feature that seems to be missing for what I needed…
dmoose on HN
Useful library, ported into a real IDE
From 1 comment
This is an awesome library, thank you so much for making it. I just ported it to my IDE, agentastic.dev, and works like a charm.…
ahmadyan on HN
Objections
No explanation of why the library is needed given native tabbing APIs
From 1 comment
This is very interesting, I haven’t touched macOS development for quite a while but it’s good to know that libraries are still being written for both AppKit and SwiftUI on macOS.…
goranmoomin on HN
Native tab support is underbaked and awkward
From 1 comment
I've tried the native tab support several times, and my impression is that it's good for very little. It may be OK for certain types of document-oriented apps, but there's a…
atombender on HN
Title does not say it is a library
From 2 comments
The title really should include "library"...
iLoveOncall on HNHonestly yeah. I clicked it thinking it was an MDI app.
publicdebates on HN
No license visible in repo
From 1 comment
This looks like a great library, and I'm happy to see focus on proper native Mac apps over Electron. One odd thing, the library doesn't have a license associated with it (in the…
jen20 on HN
Requests
Tear-off tabs into separate windows
From 1 comment
This is quite beautiful. I had a somewhat similar use case last year and built something that wasn't this polished. The only feature that seems to be missing for what I needed…
dmoose on HN
Intra-pane tab reordering by drag and drop
From 1 comment
Fantastic! Managing views in eclipse like this is one of the things that keeps me using eclipse. From looking at the demo and the docs... What I didn't see in the demo was…
w10-1 on HN
Screenshots or demo that works on mobile
From 2 comments
This is very interesting, I haven’t touched macOS development for quite a while but it’s good to know that libraries are still being written for both AppKit and SwiftUI on macOS.…
goranmoomin on HNYeah I realized that only now, for some reason when I was on mobile and I was looking into this the demo video was not loading at all. I would love to retract my comment :(
goranmoomin on HN
Questions
Why the close button is on the right of the tab
From 1 comment
What was the thinking of putting the close button on the right of the tab?
bartvk on HN
Can tabs be closed to left or right, and can two views share a document
From 1 comment
Fantastic! Managing views in eclipse like this is one of the things that keeps me using eclipse. From looking at the demo and the docs... What I didn't see in the demo was…
w10-1 on HN
Alternatives named
Native AppKit window tabbing
From 2 comments
Native tabs work at the window level.
saagarjha on HNThis is very interesting, I haven’t touched macOS development for quite a while but it’s good to know that libraries are still being written for both AppKit and SwiftUI on macOS.…
goranmoomin on HN
Sublime Text origami mode
From 1 comment
- library - functionality/effect looks like Sublime Text origami mode
treetalker on HN
suckless tabbed
From 1 comment
Yes, I assumed it was a macos equivalent to suckless-tabbed. https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/
krispyfi on HN
ion3/notion window manager
From 1 comment
My favourite window manager in linux was always ion3 that then became known as notion. I'm not sure if it was one of the first tiling/tab/split window managers but I started…
rob_ on HN