Its source code highlighter crashes often too. It can crash when you writing a complex piece of code or building a project with many dependencies. It has too many disadvantages compared to other IDEs: Xcode is the weakest member of Swift/Xcode/iOS Dev SDK. Not fun! Xcode is a poor development tool This year guys from Zendesk weren’t able to submit a new version of ZendeskSDK in time, and I had to download the previous Xcode version to be able to run my project. We have to hope that guys maintaining our dependencies make sure they work with the new version of Swift, Xcode or iOS.

Things get even worse if the project is large with a lot of dependencies. And here we are: instead of developing new features, we google the problem and try to fix it. Sometimes the error message is very strange and not helpful at all. There are numerous ways things can go wrong: code signing, missing a required module, module incompatibility, Swift syntax change, UIKit or Foundation function change, Apple Mach-O linker error and so on. Swift, iOS SDK and Xcode is unstableĪctually, Xcode is pretty stable here: it stops building your project properly every September, when a new version of iOS SDK and Xcode gets released. Lacking of expressiveness impacts the app architecture in a negative way and forces us to find alternatives and workarounds. In 2019 they introduced SwiftUI a new, declarative way to create app UI. The fact that these paradigms are deeply integrated into the SDK forces us to use them instead of more modern, safe and convenient options (closures, notifiers).Īpple tries to move forward though. It is written in Objective C and uses many of deprecated paradigms, such as selectors and KVO. We can switch between Flutter releases on our own. In any case, we are not required to wait an unknown amount of time to get the problem fixed. Developers can even fix the problem on their own and commit to the Flutter repo. We can pinpoint the problem and report an issue. The only option for us is to find workarounds and hope they won’t break with the next version of iOS.įlutter is open-source. IOS SDK is completely proprietary, which makes debugging hard. The source code for iOS SDK is not publicly available.

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