[nostrademons]

I think grandparent poster is saying app devs should program directly to the built-in Apple syntax rather than using a third-party library which wraps it. Because if Apple comes out with extensions or changes, then anyone who uses Stevia will need to wait until the library incorporates them, losing their advantage to competitors in the process.

I sympathize somewhat with the grandparent poster's point, but it all depends on how likely Apple is to improve auto-layout vs. how many new developers need an easier layout system now. JQuery managed to become massively popular on the web, despite web browsers eventually adopting most of its innovations, because the browsers took years to incorporate its innovations (and sometimes never quite got the syntax right) while millions of people needed to make a webapp right now.

[lstamour]

I can see that now. Certainly anyone who worked with the HTML-based iOS components Facebook had back in the day was in for a shock later. I don't recommend using any iOS libraries you aren't prepared to upgrade/replace later -- and this includes Apple code too! Plenty of Apple APIs change every year, so... I'd hope somebody takes up the cause of updating this for as long as the API proves useful. :)