On: Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

[saagarjha]

On macOS Qt doesn’t really use Cocoa, it use Quartz/CoreGraphics (the drawing rather than the application layer). Note that Apple’s pro apps are native controls with a UI theme: they usually behave like their unthemed counterparts.

[PaulDavisThe1st → saagarjha]

I had meant to write Quartz, not Cocoa.

I know how Qt works at that level. I did a bunch of work in the mid-naughts on the equivalent stuff in GTK.