[nspassov]

Apple are pushing storyboards a lot but that's all about making the learning curve less steep for entry-level developers. Doing UI programmatically is going to be the way to write any reusable piece of code, unless Apple change Interface Builder to generate ObjC/Swift classes rather than XML.

[astrange]

Interface Builder has successfully produced every UI in the system since 1988, you know. NSCoding, nibs and IB are older than most systems with UI declarations in code.