This library is basically Swift/Core Data, just portable farther back in time. It’s not hard to point out where the reinventing the wheel is.
> learning a third party library is just the name of the game when one feels that the tools Apple provides do not suit their needs
Or you can just wait a couple more platform updates instead of always being on the bleeding edge. Apple’s frameworks might not be perfect, but they’re quite exhaustive, and libraries that aim to fill in those gaps are offering diminishing marginal returns that would be unnecessary in 1-2 WWDCs.
I’m sure there are apps small enough to plan for short time horizons, but for companies who plan for their apps to run for half a decade or more, this is the sort of library that you’ll soon mark as tech debt and then refactor for removal when its approaches eventually make it to Apple’s own SDKs. The historical precedent is there.
> open source, and not a proprietary technology
Yea those are great virtues elsewhere but they stop becoming priorities the moment you pay for the license to develop for a walled garden and agree to its T&Cs
> learning a third party library is just the name of the game when one feels that the tools Apple provides do not suit their needs
Or you can just wait a couple more platform updates instead of always being on the bleeding edge. Apple’s frameworks might not be perfect, but they’re quite exhaustive, and libraries that aim to fill in those gaps are offering diminishing marginal returns that would be unnecessary in 1-2 WWDCs.
I’m sure there are apps small enough to plan for short time horizons, but for companies who plan for their apps to run for half a decade or more, this is the sort of library that you’ll soon mark as tech debt and then refactor for removal when its approaches eventually make it to Apple’s own SDKs. The historical precedent is there.
> open source, and not a proprietary technology
Yea those are great virtues elsewhere but they stop becoming priorities the moment you pay for the license to develop for a walled garden and agree to its T&Cs