To minimize file size and maximize performance, we’re offering separate Apple silicon and Intel builds. The blog post screenshot had me all “yay, looks like it matches the new sidebar style in macOS, wonder if it is Catalyst or SwiftUI?”, then I opened the preference “window” … which is an Electron-style modal inside the main window. The language and compilation status of the backend are not relevant to whether the frontend is native. The most disturbing part about this is that their support team has been misleading people on Twitter all morning, not truthfully answering straightforward questions about whether the app is Electron A two-person team can write a native AppKit app, but a team of 473 starting with a mature AppKit codebase has other priorities.

The new Mac app uses Electron, too, as you can immediately see from how the fonts and controls look.

On the frontend side of things we used web technologies to allow us to create an entirely new design language for 1Password. Rust compiles directly to native code and avoids the overhead associated with runtimes or garbage collection. The backend is written in Rust, a true systems programming language known for its safety and performance. What makes this release even more amazing is it was created from scratch and developed using new languages and techniques most of our team never used before. next generation of 1Password gives you more power to recover data, starting with item drafts, the ability to restore recently deleted items, as well as being able to revert to previous versions of an item. It’s also great for hiding production work accounts until I explicitly require them. I personally use Collections to hide family vaults that I only need access to in case of emergency and don’t want to see every day. When you do, 1Password will show you who will gain access to the item so there’s no doubt about what’s happening. Try dragging-and-dropping an item from a personal vault to a shared vault. Throughout the app you’re in more control, with more contextual information available at all times. And items show who they’re being shared with. You’ll also notice an indicator next to each shared vault, making it easier to see which vaults are private and which are shared.

Categories now sit atop your item list as a simple dropdown filter, giving the sidebar plenty of room to show all your vaults and their accounts.

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