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4 years ago1Password 8 - Non-native feel
Like many Mac users, I was greatly disappointed to read that 1Password is moving to Electron. I firmly believe that Electron is a bad framework for app development, and the 1Password 8 beta does not ...
danco
4 years agoOccasional Contributor
Oh, I agree with you. But I think that AgileBits strongly dislike making commitments of that kind. I am hoping that behind the scenes they are investigating this option, but very much doubt if they will tell us so unless such a version is at least in alpha, maybe not until a beta.
One of their problems seems to be that SwiftUI is not mature enough, while AppKit is old enough that it might go away in the version after Monterey. At least Electron should work for a long time.
I'm not myself planning to try 1PW8 until actual release, but I do get the impression that some of the current criticism forgets that the current version isn't even a beta yet, it works on the whole but is ugly and has many rough edges.