alt Hacker NewsApple seems to be loved by users, but hated by developers (and for good reasons). They just seem to not give a shit about the developer experience.
You mention some examples, I have experience with lower-level stuff: terrible. Poorly documented, and actually not really working well.
IMO they should focus on improving the developer experience instead of wasting money on the joke that is Liquid Glass (even users don't like it, right?). But anyway, too late for me: I'm soooo happy that I can develop iOS apps in Kotlin now, and just endure Xcode for building and occasional debugging.
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mpweiher • yesterday at 9:01 PM
This used to be different. NeXTstep and early MacOS-X were pretty much the finest platforms to develop on.
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They used to care about developers. Peak cocoa and uikit was a thing of beauty and objc remains my favorite programming language of all time. When Swift came along i tried and was dissapointed and then a decade later i gave it another whirl and was shocked it was still so bad. The hardware has gotten better, but the software clearly not.