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Not interested on flamewars here. Reading this thread it looks like merits of system is upon peoples arbitrary metrics based on varying perspectives. So a constructive discussion is not going to happen.

So until there is some standardised comparison probably making any statements about merits or demerits, including mine are just opinions without facts.

UPI is an impressive system, I use it often and it is quite empowering for billions of Indians.

But calling it the "best payment system in the world"! And west wants it so bad sounds like blind exaggerations.

United States is not the only western country. Scandinavian countries has Swish (2012), Vipps (2013), and Mobile pay (2015), Canada has Interac.

I was surprised by this statement as well. I think the author wanted to paint a picture how miserable things are. Things definitely are difficult for them financially. The prices stated however is bit too over exaggerated. A dinner that starts at $47 in India is something would have made me think 10 times before going for it. You can have a really good dinner for two at 10$ at a nice restaurant in India.

The author's revenge seems to be against his users who opted to used Sign In with Apple. Since they will be the one suffering because they trusted to use the particular app. I can find merit in complaining about apple's restriction in accessing payments. But SignIn with Apple, as a user I will always opt for that given my email won't be available with a third party forever for them to spam or sell. I have integrated SignIn with Apple both in an app and backend. I never felt it was particularly difficult or under-documented.

I agree that the preview of Xcode build looks it is very tightly integrated with Xcode >Xcode Cloud requires you to push your repository to their servers, and you have to configure the "Workflows" via their desktop application.

The code still lives with your preferred Git hosting provider. Xcode Cloud copies/clones the code just like any conventional CI. Once the build is done, Apple claims to remote/delete any copy of it.

> No configuration as code, no shell scripts you can run from your existing CI/CD, no ability to trigger a build remotely or push code to them on demand. You can't even synchronously wait on a build to finish - you have to set up a web server and listen for a webhook! You can't integrate it with your existing CI/CD - whether that's GitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines, etc.

I will reserve my comments about inter-op till they release their API and I get to play with it.

Xcode Cloud seems to be a blessing for iOS developers who don't have exposure to CI/CD systems. And that includes most iOS developers. And also it will be a blessing for companies since hiring good CI/CD engineers for iOS is really hard.

My personal view is, Xcode cloud does a lot of things what fastlane was doing using Apples Cloud infrastructure.

Opinion columns are not scientific sources. To the article's credit recklessness from people are is the reason for the spike. But doesn't absolves a leadership that claimed to have concurred Covid-19 and have no clue about disaster management. Indians deserved better.

I agree with you that larger mass gatherings have a clear responsibility. However, cherry-picking the farmers protest which was dissenting a government policy when there were multiple other events and a clearly clue-less government feels like government propaganda.

> but these days I'm seeing a lot more of a walking back of this as people invariably use the primitives incorrectly and shoot themselves in the foot

Interesting, on which eco-systems you see this happening (iOS/MacOS) ?

Impressive that it works well with my native language Malayalam. However, it would be nice to notify the user that adding a profile picture is required to sign up. My girlfriend who is non-tech savvy was confused + stuck at the page.

I am an Indian and knows Hindi. I am curious to know how it is offensive or an insult. And among students it may earn some giggles and nothing more. And for South India, which probably has the infrastructure to use a library like this, Hindi isn't even the medium for communication.