TLDR Web Dev · OPINIONS & ADVICE
9 YEARS OF APPLE TEXT EDITOR SOLO DEV
Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter
This solo developer has been working on a text editor for nine years, building the application using AppKit and Objective-C. In this post, they describe various implementation details and challenges experienced while developing the application, such as the application’s architecture, the decision to avoid third-party dependencies, and how storyboards were used to create a well-structured codebase. They also show how they read framework code and analyze stack traces to understand how Apple frameworks work.