macOS support (and multiplatform in general)

[ggoraa]

Hi! This client is looking really promising, and I want to contribute my knowledge and skill to it: I am currently developing a custom client for Telegram: Moc, where I use SwiftUI, which allows me to support both macOS and iPadOS with ease. And I want to make the same thing here, by implementing support for the macOS desktop!

How do you look at it? I think this will be pretty good :)

[ggoraa]

By "implementing support for the macOS desktop" I don't mean Catalyst, i mean proper multiplatform support of macOS using new in Xcode 14 "Multiplatform targets"

[helje5]

I did a Nio port to macOS SwiftUI a while (2y?) back, called Mio, which was integrated into the project. Not sure what the current state is.

[ggoraa]

Isn't it done using Catalyst?

[helje5]

Mio was native AppKit SwiftUI. Might have been replaced/removed in the meantime by the current maintainers. Catalyst is awful.

[ggoraa]

Oh, now I got it
Yea, I agree that catalyst is awful, so that's why I am suggesting adding macOS as a natively supported platform :)

[A-R-M]

This is the Mio that @helje5 was referring to btw:
https://zeezide.de/download/Mio.app-0.2.0-2.zip

(old link found here).