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by galad87 921 days ago
The issue has got nothing to do with programming languages or UI toolkits, it's just that before there were more people with more attention to details, or now the management is so broken that there is no QA and no time to fix things.
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flohofwoe 921 days ago
A good operating system UI framework should enforce the operating system's UX standards though and make it hard to create an UI which doesn't conform to the rules.

But yeah, in the end, software quality needs to be tackled on the organizational level.

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mpweiher 921 days ago
Really?

Just at the moment that Swift and, later, SwiftUI get introduced, and entirely coincidentally, management breaks?

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galad87 921 days ago
It's been a gradual process, looks at the Music app, how it has continuously got worse and buggier over the year, even without Swift and SwiftUI. You can't blame SwiftUI for that.
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mpweiher 921 days ago
I see the whole thing a bit more holistically. Swift and SwiftUI are both symptoms of the more general malaise, and then contribute back to it.

We had this in hardware, with machines getting worse and worse and Apple getting more and more arrogant about how perfect they were. In hardware, they had their "Come to Jesus" moment, got rid of Jonathan Ive (who had done great things for Apple, but seemed to be getting high on his own fumes), pragmatically fixed what was wrong and did the ARM transition.

With software, they are still high on their own fumes. The software is getting worse and worse at every level, and they keep telling us and apparently themselves how much better it is getting all the time. Completely delusional.

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