I don't want to switch spaces using my keyboard, I like the touchpad gesture. Since I need a workflow where I can't use my preferred gesture anyway I just don't use spaces and have learned to live with cmd+tab and cmd+`.
I understand. I too am annoyed by that lag, but could not live w/o Spaces. Which is a shame because in addition to being annoying, they are buggy as hell…
Honestly I feel Apple should throw away their whole window manager and restart from scratch. It’s getting worse after each major release version since ~ at least 7 years ago!
Deactivating SIP is not that dangerous if you know what you’re doing. All it does it give back write access to root to some parts of the system.
Obviously, for the commoners, it is definitely not recommended, especially since they usually run random commands from stochastic engines w/o supervision… oh…… engineers do that too now? how in the hell???
> Deactivating SIP is not that dangerous if you know what you’re doing. All it does it give back write access to root to some parts of the system.
To be fair, given the increasingly sneaky cyber attacks these days, the more layers of security between you and root access the better IMHO. Turning off SIP in today's environment is a bit nuts as it is a genuinely sensible security layer.
It’s much easier to insert persistent malware when you can modify the operating system. I remember Windows viruses that would disable windows update. Very annoying!
If you're going to insist on being one of those hardcore "I must be root" people then there's nothing I can say that will satisfy your urge. The same if you are one of those permanent Apple bashers.
However, for the benefit of more sensible people, I will point out:
1. I used the terminology "layered security" twice in my post above
2. By definition if you have a blind hatred of Apple SIP, you must also have a hatred of SELinux or AppArmor or dm-verity or kernel lockdown mode on Linux.
I'm a huge proponent of SELinux, you as the user are totally in control of it. The thing I disagree with philosophically is putting barriers between or outright locking the user out of root. Software running on the system is fine to be locked in various jails but the user shouldn't be.
> And then here comes Erik Veland with a port of... well, all of them. The original game. The semi-sequel games. The three different holiday games. Preview support for the two full sequels. And six thousand fan levels.
Swift is not very good. An entire generation of developers are slowly discovering this as they have LLMs rewrite their apps in ObjC & UIKit and see it yield 3x perf improvements without even getting all that far deep into the weeds on optimization.
Properly written, Swift can beat rust[1]. (Obviously the rust project could probably catch up by using the same optimization techniques than the Swift project did, but my point is Swift has nothing to envy from rust in terms of performance.)
Swift’s philosophy is “easy to use first but you can go lower if you need performance.” Rust’s philosophy is kind of the opposite. I think Swift’s philosophy is a valid, and even a more interesting philosophy than rust’s, but to each his own.
wrt. migrating to ObjC/UIKit please do post references when issuing statements like these. Possibly migrating from SwiftUI to UIKit would give performance improvements, but that has nothing to do with Swift itself. SwiftUI is actually written mostly in C++ IIRC.
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