Best of Apple — September 2021

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   SitePoint·5y

   Visual Studio Code Shortcuts: A Programmer’s Guide

   This article covers default keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Linux and macOS. Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular and most used code editors. It’s open source and free to use. It provides support for many languages and frameworks, whether through built-in features or the extensive list of extensions available for the editor.

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   Developer Tech·5y

   Developers appear to be losing interest in macOS

   In 2020, developers released 392 apps on average per month for the Mac. In 2021, that’s dropped to 343 per month. Appfigures isn’t too optimistic about the outlook going forward. Apple itself last year said that it receives more than 100,000 apps or app updates per week for iOS.

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   The New Stack·5y

   Apple’s Browser Engine Ban Is Holding Back Web App Innovation – The New Stack

   Apple blogger John Gruber suggested web developers “should not be trying to create a ‘native like app’ in a web browser’ Gruber said this in relation to increasing criticism of Apple for not allowing competing browser engines on its iOS platform. By forcing browser vendors like Google, Microsoft and Mozilla to use the WebKit browser engine, Apple is deliberately restricting the functionality of web apps.

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