The topic of making UIKit available to developers on the Mac comes up from time to time.
People seem to go back and forth on it, as in this post from a couple of years ago.
>The thing is, UIKit "just works" (most of the time at least). AppKit has so much historical garbage that it's become a pain to work with for modern macOS apps. It's still really hard to make simple things like customizing system controls and Core Animation doesn't work as well on it as it does on UIKit.
People seem to go back and forth on it, as in this post from a couple of years ago.
>The thing is, UIKit "just works" (most of the time at least). AppKit has so much historical garbage that it's become a pain to work with for modern macOS apps. It's still really hard to make simple things like customizing system controls and Core Animation doesn't work as well on it as it does on UIKit.
https://medium.com/@guilhermerambo/why-uikit-for-macos-is-im...