A few weeks ago there was an extended discussion on the future of Objective-C and I linked to a couple of different stories on it. This week Jason Brennan posted a follow up to his original article. He argues that we're not thinking big enough by just considering a replacement for Objective-C and that we need to think of a bigger picture on how we build software in a more modern way. It's a lengthy article but certainly one worth reading, and looking back on in 5 years.
The Case for Lists in UICollectionView
The opening paragraphs to Douglas Hill's latest post were the best thing I read this week. It jokingly says "We used to work with someone who wanted to deprecate UITableView, and the very next thing they did was to get a job with Apple and deprecate UITableView!" 😂 Amazing. It's also a great post about the new collection view list APIs. 👍
Kyle Van Essen makes a great point in this tweetstorm. It may not be possible to reach UI nirvana with SwiftUI yet, but that the benefits it does bring are worth the current compromises. The framework coverage, and ability to polish can come over the next few years, but getting rid of the endless complexity of UI updates in increasingly complex operating environments is priceless.
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I wanted to write something about sponsoring open-source projects a couple of weeks ago when this post appeared, but WWDC dominates everything! But I didn't forget, and I'll talk about it now instead.
The post, if you read it, is about PSPDFKit sponsoring part of the CocoaPods project. I had no idea that some of the CocoaPods maintainers were paying for significant portions of this essential part of our ecosystem from their own pockets. 😨
I talked briefly about this in April, but I think it's worth saying again. We all rely on open-source libraries and tools, so wouldn't it be lovely if the people kindly maintaining them were earning money for doing it?
I feel that this support should come primarily from companies too. It's all too easy for businesses to ignore the issue, or maybe not even know how essential open-source software is to what they do. Also, the amounts of money needed from each company, if more did this, would be trivial. So that's where you come in, dear reader! A little advocacy can go a long way, and so I'd love it if you took a look at what open-source your company's apps rely on, and set some wheels in motion at your next 1:1 meeting.
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Try not to get lost in this and emerge smiling an hour later like I did.
One thing I heard repeatedly last week was people saying "What are we going to complain about now?". I was pretty confident that we would all find something suitable to fill the void now that Christmas came early, Justin Williams kicks us off.
I always find the stories about how apps come into existence fascinating and this one from Alexander Griekspoor about Agenda is no different. I also love to see in-development screenshots and videos, and there's some of those here too. It's worth a read!
