How many good apps never get started because this looming thread is a huge motivation killer for experiments. Imagine what kind of software we could have without the Great Filter ™
@steipete
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Xcode User Experience Disappointment Compared Visual Studio
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Same thought 2009 when I came from Visual Studio. Xcode opened and I saw the text window and was waiting for the IDE to load. LOL after a minute my realization that this was it
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Apple’s Cultural Dominance Stifles Community Innovation
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It’s a cultural thing. Everyone prays and looks at Apple. And when they ship half-broken things it removes the air for any community tooling and we end up in limbo land.
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iOS developers should overcome fear of tooling work
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Full ack. Imagine if iOS folks would just not be afraid to work on tooling themselves.
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Developer frustration with bug reporting process efficiency
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I’ve given up on bug reports, so much time for so little gain.
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Apple’s Long-Standing Bug Communication and Codebase Management Issues
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“When I was at Apple, if you ran into an issue in the Apple codebase, you messaged someone working on that directly about it. This has been broken for years. Some of my bugs on this go back to 2015. It’s astonishing to me that it’s still as bad as it is.”
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Alignment efforts gaining momentum to halt AI madness
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Same. Stars seem to slowly align to stop this madness.
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Developer Considers Returning to Coding After Break
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Might check it out. Haven’t written code in a while tho.
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Kissing Under the Mushroom Cloud: Nuclear Existentialism
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Imagine kissing under the mushroom cloud
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Apple App Distribution Challenges Discourage Developer Investment
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“I feel discouraged spending more time developing apps for Apple platforms, when there is no guarantee that I can distribute my creations.”