NetNewsWire's developer shares a one-year progress report since retirement, detailing significant technical improvements to the popular RSS reader app. Key updates include adopting modern Swift concurrency, porting parsers from Objective-C to Swift, performance optimizations, and adding new diagnostic tools. The post highlights over 2,000 commits focused on modernization, bug fixes, and technical debt reduction.
Background
NetNewsWire is a popular open-source RSS reader for macOS and iOS, known for its clean interface and focus on performance. The app has a long history dating back to 2002 and was acquired by Brent Simmons in 2018.
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- Lobsters
- Published
- Jun 16, 2026 at 04:23 AM
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- 5.0 / 10