What's wrong with wahn-der-fyoo-gull?

If I recall correctly, iTunes was a Carbon application. They ported parts of the Carbon APIs to get it running on Windows.

QuickTime for Windows existed long before then, and Apple ported a bunch of the old Classic Mac Toolbox to Windows as part of that.

IIRC it was actually this Windows port of Toolbox that in some ways laid the foundation for Carbon - i.e. a port of the Toolbox API to what became Mac OS X.

Interesting stuff, I wish there was a way it would get open sourced one day.

Yes, this is correct.

I do remember it had its own font rendering which looked out of place on Windows.

"There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage." -- Kurt von Hammerstein

Martin Fowler: "Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work."

Why no macOS support?

I don't have a mac. I did have a guy who was going to add support for it but he backed out.

The main GUI is built in QT so making a mac port shouldn't be too hard (the serial port detection would be the hardest part I think).

Kudos for going with Qt. It looks nice.

Britain is not in the EU.

End of an era. Used to go there in the 90s. Now everything belongs to shitty, worthless Silicon Valley adventurers.

There's also afplay - Audio File Play (plays an audio file to the default audio output). Can play all audio formats supported by CoreAudio.

Use iTerm2

I will try again but I believe the same problem happens with iTerm2

Thank you for that lengthy diatribe, which I heartily agree with. It's really all about separation of concerns.

Lol, yeah, sorry, I really gotta work on brevity...

> It's really all about separation of concerns.

Exactly!

Yes. I maintain some open source Mac apps in my spare time (and even develop new ones from time to time) using Objective-C. I've known and used this programming language for 20 years, and don't really see the point of investing in Swift given the way the Apple ecosystem has developed.