Comment by Razengan
4 years ago
> Apple, et al. is more willing to break things than Windows is. They aren't as bound to legacy compatibility, so old UI elements can be shed easily.
macOS has actually been pretty good at seamlessly adding new features to old apps, with just a recompile against the latest SDK, like all the NSDocument-derived stuff (auto-save, auto-recover, iCloud etc.), Dark Mode, accessibility etc.
Not to mention they pulled two complete arch changes.
Ah yes, and maintained almost seamless compatibility with the previous archs for a while.