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I don't really want to defend method swizzling (it's grotesque from some entirely reasonable perspectives). However, it does work on external/3rd party code (e.

I don't really want to defend method swizzling (it's grotesque from some entirely reasonable perspectives). However, it does work on external/3rd party code (e.g. audio plugins) even when you don't have control over their source code. I'm not sure you can pull that off with "better" approaches ...

alwaysbeconsing 8mo ago
Problem come when a third-party code do that swizzling, looking at you every iOS analytics framework to this day.
bunderbunder 8mo ago
That’s the main use case I can think of. It’s possible with other languages but may require more hacking. I like monkey patching for testing legacy code. I like it less as a thing in production code because it can become a security and reliability problem.