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In a nutshell: David W. Plummer is the original developer of Task Manager, one of Windows' most popular built-in tools for monitoring and managing system resources. Now, the programmer wants to "reimagine" his original project, adapting the same concept for computer platforms beyond Windows.
David Plummer is working on a new Task Manager tool and is bringing it to macOS first. Simply named Task Manager OG (TMOG), the program is designed to offer a "serious" system console to people working on GUI-based operating systems. Furthermore, TMOG focuses specifically on code efficiency, depth of information, and the kind of performance that only native applications can offer.
Plummer created Windows Task Manager during his tenure at Microsoft, coding the tool in his spare time before Windows NT lead developer Dave Cutler decided to integrate it into the platform. The new TMOG project appears to provide a similar experience to the original program, although it could represent a massive upgrade for macOS users compared with the platform's bare-bones Activity Monitor tool.
