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Everyone is gawking over the M1 > because your app is using their "IP" in the form of all the libraries and tooling they nigh unto force you to use to build ap
by anonymouse008 5y ago
Everyone is gawking over the M1
> because your app is using their "IP" in the form of all the libraries and tooling they nigh unto force you to use to build apps that run on their phone; like, to them, UIKit (I presume), Metal (which many people are only using because Apple refused to implement OpenGL or Vulcan), and (this is rich) apparently even Xcode
And say what you will about Xcode, but I’m literally building in Vapor 4 (server side Swift) with all of its warts because I experience trauma leaving Xcode. JetBrains and VSCode are painful to get to function like Xcode - but if there are any pointers to make it a better experience I’m al ears...
Edit: just to reiterate. Users want long battery life, fast compile times / snappy apps, better connectivity into life...
And honestly Apple has almost screwed itself executing perfectly on those demands in its native platform.
We forget at the end of the day we all (devs, manufacturers, etc) are working to bring value to a customer, who has other relationships with other suppliers. Those other relationships create multiple Pareto equilibriums based on the utility function of the customer... this case is trying to reweight (with more philosophical reason) how millions of customers have previously and consistently chosen to balance their decisions
- Aeolun 5y ago> JetBrains and VSCode are painful to get to function like Xcode Because nobody sane wants them to? Like, to me, I can jump into most any IDE I’ve ever used without too much trouble, but Xcode is impenetrable. It’s like Apple tried to throw up an artificial wall by making all Xcode paradigms different from anything else.
- blacktriangle 5y agoI think that's a bit harsh. I'm quite able to be productive in both JetBrains products and in Xcode. I'd say JetBrains is superior due to the whole Intentions debugging system, but conceptual it is not a quantum leap between the two of them. Where Xcode falls down is its sheer bugginess.