system.environment.isCarbon value?

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Issue type
Bug
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Needs clarification
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Tech stack
electron
Domain
desktop

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Search the repository for system.environment.isCarbon and inspect where it is initialized and checked. Trace the callers that require a defined value, then determine the appropriate behavior for the current Electron environment and verify that those checks remain correct.

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Claude didn't know what to initialize it to, and neither do I.

IIRC, this was put in when the Mac was transitioning to MacOSX from the old multifinder OS. Many many years ago. If we set it false, which was my first inclination, because this surely isn't the OS that Apple shipped in 1997 or so, that would activate any random code that only ran on System 7. And of course that is funny.

It can't be undefined, there is code that's in use that checks this.

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