I finally understand why all of my feature requests for Fantastical seem to fall into a black hole:
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I was going to post this. This is very unexpected news!
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Ah, neat. Did they bring over Swift code, like Arc?
So tomorrow pigs will start to fly? 
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I didn’t know that about Arc. No idea for Fantastical!
I’m not excited about this. It feels like apps that go from Apple land to cross-platform stop paying attention to the little details pretty quickly…
At least there are some decent alternatives:
Not surprising, given their focus on teams. Teams = business = Windows (if you’re chasing the big bucks).
I still miss the sleekness of Fantastical, but not enough to pay for Windows development.
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Looks like they only share obj-c. Windows UI is done the right way.
I share the concern about cross-platform UI but their architecture and pricing strategy(!) seem right for maintaining immersion in the HIGs and programming idioms on both platforms.
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80% of the world still runs Windows. They wouldn’t have to be a major player to double their business.
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This is exciting! Windows really doesn’t have any great calendar apps that work with Office365 (looking at you Notion Calendar).
Most of the big companies I worked for blocked Office 365 access by third-party apps, so I wonder whether Fantastical for Windows will be a (financial) success for Flexibits.
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I ran into this exact issue today! Luckily I am in IT so I could probably get it approved if I wanted, but I agree it will prevent people at the megacorps from using it. Still there are so many more Windows users than Mac users (and a severe lack of good Windows apps) that I hope this is still a success for them.
Yup, I have used Windows and Android for most of my life and the the lack of good apps is a real thing. For example in the Windows / Android world, you’re pretty much stuck with Google Calendar for easy cross compatibility but Google Calendar doesn’t allow you to create calendars from anywhere except the web UI.
And there’s no such utility like BetterTouchTool on Windows. There’s AutoHotKey but it’s very manual and is comparable to Hammerspoon than the likes of BTT and KMM. There’s also pretty much nothing like Karabiner Elements on Windows so if you want layers and such, you gotta do it on your keyboard firmware directly.
This problem is even worse on Android where the most configurable apps just look like they were made for android 2.0, and in most cases, you won’t find alternatives.
Off topic: I actually like and use Hammerspoon a lot. It’s a pity that it doesn’t get more attention. The Automators podcast hasn’t spent a single word on it afaik. Instead they kept on talking about TE and KM.
I am not saying AHK or HS are bad by any means, I am just saying that if I want to get some automation done via GUI, there’s nothing on Windows.