[rTX5CMRXIfFG]

> It’s not surprising that more are preferring to use Electron, React Native, or Flutter to develop apps than to live with the bare metal Xcode toolchain and Apple APIs.

Funny, because Electron, RN, and Flutter are the toys of mobile app development, serving mostly just one-man shops and toy applications--and even Android developers are going to agree.

And while I'm also of the opinion that Xcode has plenty of areas for improvement, you can't just extend the same commentary to Apple's APIs. Apple APIs are incredibly stable, well-architected, and so highly scalable that it's almost an embarrassment that Google gets all the rep for being an engineering powerhouse when the Android SDK has always been an incoherent hell of a mess since Android came out.

[asimpletune]

I'm so glad to read this comment. I think one way to learn great software design is read through the Apple APIs. Obviously not all of them are perfect, but even when that is the case it's always interesting to ask yourself why.

[fomine3]

GP don't praise Android SDK.