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And to be clear—these are all existing sample apps for open source Objective-C projects. The creator of this site does not appear to have done anything but gathered these up into z…

I don't understand why this is getting so much attention. This is nothing more than a couple zip files containing a few Objective-C open source projects that happen to have example…

I have no illusions about the amount of effort and investment necessary to change technology stacks. Carbon was only officially deprecated in OS X 10.8. To speak of the death of te…

I appreciate your feedback, but I think you're reading an entirely different argument than what is presented in the article. It's not that everything is going to be rewritten in Sw…

I don't really see much need for it. Others are welcome to create such an integration, but I probably won't do so myself.

You make some good points, and I agree to caution against names that bear no semantic relationship with their purpose. My justification of Alamofire is that it reflects the history…

> Was there any reason why you chose callbacks over a Promise-like pattern for the async responses? Deeply-nested networking callbacks are a code smell, and I find that promises of…

Yes, that's correct.

The short answer: Use the version of `request` that takes a `URLRequestConvertible`, and specify the header fields in that. The long answer: Custom headers on a per-request basis a…

Creator of Alamofire here. Just pushed the 1.0.0 release. Happy to answer any questions you might have.

Author of the article here. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

> ...ending up in an error block because of a malformed server response is a pain in the ass. Is it really an error if you get a 200 OK response but the body isn't valid JSON? Yes.…

Nothing in AFNetworking forces a success/failure block. For request operations, `completionBlock` can be set directly. For session tasks, the parameter is a `completionHandler`.

There's plenty of room for simplicity and abstraction, but this is not a particularly good one, if I'm going to be honest. I can't think of any situation in which I'd recommend thi…

> If i want to generate url requests, i have to use a serializer class... No, you don't. There's nothing stopping you from creating `NSURLRequest` directly. > ...wouldn't it be bet…

I'm all about seeing new ideas about how to approach networking architectures, but this one makes me worried for anyone who decides to adopt it. Networking is an inherently complex…