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Reminds me of Visual Studio drag and drop to generate UIs for Windows apps, or Xcode's storyboard for drag and drop UIs. Interestingly, Apple is transitioning t

• spaceywilly 4y ago
  Maybe it’s just me but I always found the storyboards to be a nightmare. When it works it is ok, but I would argue no faster than just writing the code. When it doesn’t work and you have to attempt to debug an issue, hoo boy. I know how to code, just let me code the UI.
  • jahewson 4y ago
    Who needs spaghetti code when you have spaghetti?
  • ablatt89 4y ago
    Indeed, I recall Storyboards were nice for a first layout, but constraints were iffy on the Storyboard, and in the end, a lot of more complex UIs just had to be written programatically. I remember around maybe 2013?, there was a UI component that was all the hype; the sliding options menu (where you hit the hamburger at the top and the menu would cover half the screen). I wanted to remake it and tried to do it with Storyboards and imperative code, but it never worked just quite right. When I got rid of the sliding menu UIView on the Storyboard and just wrote the UI programmatically via UIKit, it was hard to learn but the final product was a finely, tunable sliding options menu view :-)