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Years ago I decided to delve into learning Swift and native iOS development. I simply could not get accustomed to using XCode. The UI/UX of XCode is atrocious in a way that I’m struggling to articulate. I found myself constantly opening and closing panels just to click on icons that weren’t intuitively grouped together. To open one panel would forcefully minimize the other. It’s like a tenth of my time was dedicated…
What's the most beginner friendly framework for web app development that is lean and not bloated like angular
This author seems confused about something that he, himself explains. The reason that Apple doesn't care about developers is that they have created such a walled garden cult w/ users that developers are forced to produce products for their platform or they lose half their market -- or more. At my day job in mobile game development (for a small studio inside a large company), we have to fight Apple constantly -- not o…
I think this is because Apple is a hardware company, that uses software to attract consumers. While Microsoft is a software company, that uses hardware to attract consumers.
This author seems confused about something that he, himself explains. The reason that Apple doesn't care about developers is that they have created such a walled garden cult w/ users that developers are forced to produce products for their platform or they lose half their market -- or more. At my day job in mobile game development (for a small studio inside a large company), we have to fight Apple constantly -- not o…
I think this is because Apple is a hardware company, that uses software to attract consumers. While Microsoft is a software company, that uses hardware to attract consumers.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google and Apple should be regulated to offer the same functionality and performance to the web. Their grip on the most important technology of the century is astounding and harmful. Honestly first-class web mobile installs without hoops and scare walls would be the thing to strive for.
Google and Apple, both of whom make web browsers as well as OSes and could therefore cheat loads with anything like that. Of all the places to find someone conflating the companies with the operating systems Android and iOS . But even then… > same functionality > Honestly first-class web mobile installs without hoops and scare walls would be the thing to strive for. Coming to a future near you: npm install rm_minus_r…
My point is, Apple has a long history of wanting to keep it's ecosystem closed, which is a huge problem for both large companies and even more so for small publishers and indie developers. It is one of the many reasons I've hated Apple with a passion for as long as I can remember.
Meanwhile I am working on an app with several friends/former co-workers and we opted for Flutter. Since I am the only one who has any experience with smartphones in general, this seemed to be the best candidate. For one, I know Dart more or less - I'm by no means expert in either Flutter or Dart but I can navigate myself with ease and documentation is fairly good. Which is enough to be fairly productive. Also Dart is an OK language overall - at least you know what to expect from it, unlike js or ts.
Having said all that, I won't lie, I have this fear in the back of my mind that at some point Apple will try to lock flutter out of their ecosystem and be like "Tough luck, rewrite it in Swift, deal with it". Which does sound like a very Apple thing to do, even if you are the most die-hard Apple fan.
The situation is bad, there's no way to sugarcoat it. But I'd argue that even with everything I just said, the web is in a worse state. If we roll the tape back to when I wasn't even a teenager, I learned basic HTML by simply looking at Yahoo!'s source. Yes, there weren't fancy animations or shiny colors and whatnot but it was simple enough to get it going. These days, it's an absolute nightmare. A simple "hello world" page adds an ungodly amount of node_modules to your drive, long, slow and convoluted build systems, horrible setup processes and horrible development experience. On the subject of the app we are making, having a few microservices, a few databases, a set of docker images, a docker compose setup for development and kubernetes with ingress for deployment is a lot of work as it is. We can get it up to speed in a matter of a few hours since we have a total of 25-30 years of experience between the 3 of us. But if we have to add web to the equation(which personally I would not mind, considering I'm more likely to use a computer rather than a phone), it would be a catastrophe. We'd need to rope in at least 3 other people to work on that and keep in mind that this is a project for our spare time and we are investing our private time and money. The web is simply not feasible.
In the early 2010's when I was coming out of uni, I would have preferred to work with web out of the two options - you had to endure Apple's products which I wouldn't have wanted to spend money on and you had to endure Java for Android. No way I would want to deal with either of those. But these days, I'd do anything to avoid the web, simply because the web is an absolute mess - I'm far more willing to risk shooting myself in the foot than having to deal with it.
This author seems confused about something that he, himself explains. The reason that Apple doesn't care about developers is that they have created such a walled garden cult w/ users that developers are forced to produce products for their platform or they lose half their market -- or more. At my day job in mobile game development (for a small studio inside a large company), we have to fight Apple constantly -- not o…
This author seems confused about something that he, himself explains. The reason that Apple doesn't care about developers is that they have created such a walled garden cult w/ users that developers are forced to produce products for their platform or they lose half their market -- or more. At my day job in mobile game development (for a small studio inside a large company), we have to fight Apple constantly -- not o…
I think this is because Apple is a hardware company, that uses software to attract consumers. While Microsoft is a software company, that uses hardware to attract consumers.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple's entire stock in trade is "computing as it should be". Their stuff is the coolest platform ever to exist, which means that developing for their gear is like getting into Studio 54: only the hottest and coolest are allowed in, permitting anything less would tarnish the club's reputation. Which sucks for most devs but it's part of being the coolest. Microsoft just wants to dominate. They don't care if the UX is…
> only the hottest and coolest are allowed in, permitting anything less would tarnish the club's reputation It's kind of a cult in other words, personally I'm not part of it and not afraid of blasphemy when I see stuff broken.
Go ahead and write "code for the web" but be prepared to have to choose among a bunch of different JS libraries and CSS design systems depending on who the CTO is for your organization and who has their ear; writing bare-metal HTML/CSS and minimal Javascript won't get you far with the C-suite and you'll be pulling your hair out trying to get things to play nicely with each other (or wind up digging through five or te…