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This is one of the main reasons I don’t develop for Apple’s platforms any more. I’d love to write Swift and leverage all the technology in their ecosystem but w
by simonbarker87 4y ago
This is one of the main reasons I don’t develop for Apple’s platforms any more. I’d love to write Swift and leverage all the technology in their ecosystem but when you hit a wall it hits hard and you waste hours, days or weeks searching and hoping someone else hit the same issue and wrote about it.
Their docs are dire, their feedback system is terrible and they’ve made essentially zero improvements in the 7 years since I shipped my first app.
Web dev has its own frustrations but at least you can find an answer (or ten) quite quickly when you get stuck.
As a side note I had a play with the WeatherKit REST API for fun during WWDC this year and got totally stuck. Had a labs session with two engineers (who were great) and it turned out it was an issue with missing docs and seemingly none standard JWT signing process. Their docs (at the time) made no reference to any of this. So things really haven’t changed.