catapps

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   by catapps 1y ago

   Echoing the other comments about just how bad the setup here is. Setting up staging/dev environments does not take so much time as to put you behind your competition. There's a vast, VAST chasm between "We're testing o
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   by catapps 1y ago

   Sure, but developing for Apple's platforms is Swift's primary use. I'd say Dart & Flutter is a fair comparison: As flawed as they are in my eyes, its dev tooling quality is something I appreciate and wish I saw here. Ther
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   by catapps 1y ago

   As far as I could tell, if you create a Main.swift file, you can't just open that in XCode and start running it as an iOS/macOS application, and instead have to create a .xcodeproj/.xcworkspace through XCode, and add your Swi
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   by catapps 1y ago

   I've been starting to use Swift again lately after like four years, and while the language is beautiful & the package management story is now a LOT better with SwiftPM, I found that none of it plays nicely with XCode, Simulator, or
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   by catapps 1y ago

   As someone who just signed a PNS on a condo in the French Quarter yesterday (what timing for this HN post!), I'm looking forward to finding that balance between the universal and the intimate - I come from New England, where the elitis