Teen coder shuts down open source Mac app Whisky, citing harm to paid apps
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Summary
whisky is an application that allows users to run windows-only games on a mac by utilising the Wine project.
The 18 year old creator, Isaac Marovitz, has announced that the project is no longer receiving updates, and suggests users switch to CrossOver, a commercial product by CodeWeavers, instead.
Marovitz says that “Whisky, in my opinion, has not been a positive on the Wine community as a whole” and that “the amount that Whisky as a whole contributes to Wine is practically zero”
He adds that the necessary skillsets for improving Wine are very limited and it is difficult to find contributors who can help.
It is notable that Ryujinx, a switch emulator which Marovitz was also working on, shut down after an agreement with Nintendo.
