> Over the past 3 years, I've released a few apps on iOS: not bad, nothing that would amaze anyone here. The code is generally messy and horrible, rife with rac

> Over the past 3 years, I've released a few apps on iOS: not bad, nothing that would amaze anyone here. The code is generally messy and horrible, rife with race conditions and barely holding together in parts. (Biggest: 30k LOC.) While I'm proud of my work — especially design-wise — I feel most of my time was spent on battling stupid bugs. I haven't gained any specialist knowledge — just bloggable API experience. There's nothing I could write a book about. Why do you feel you're doing anything wrong..? If you've released multiple apps (30K LOC is a lot!) you're way ahead of most people who never release anything. Comparing yourself to the most prolific developers is a recipe to make you feel bad about yourself. Writing 30K LOC with minimal bugs is a massive undertaking by the way. Maybe look into using languages with stronger type systems along with automated tests to help. Also, you could rely on third party libraries to do more of the heavy lifting or just remove/simplify features you don't really need. Either way it just takes a lot of work and time.