[favorited]

> Networking APIs that require the use of a 3rd party library because the native APIs don’t even handle the basics easily

This is nonsense. I've been a professional Mac and iOS developer for well over a decade, and even in the days of NSURLConnection, I've never needed a 3rd party networking library. Uploading, downloading, streaming, proxying, caching, cookies, auth challenges, certificate validation, mTLS, HTTP/3, etc. – it's all available out of the box.

[adamwk]

Yeah NSURLSession is great and I always find whatever library I’m forced to use clunkier than using it directly with some helper methods.