leonatan

Would there also be interest paid for time lost in traffic? New York roads are tight and always busy, something the public transit system is supposed to workaround.

Could you provide a link to your library?

There are many legitimate uses of calling methods and functions using reflection. Expecting to hit all of them in a short review process is comically optimistic for anything but the simplistic of apps.

Your suggestion of enforcing this also makes no sense from performance or privacy standpoint.

I don't know why this is downvoted. This is standard practice by many people who travel, especially if traveling with the whole family.

Is it the best tool in the world? No. Is it the only actual tool to communicate bugs and enhancement requests to Apple? Almost. We've all used issue tracking software to add to backlog ("Open a Jira and I'll take a look when I have time"). Doesn't mean it's not being looked at.

That bus entails both good and bad, and everyone should be familiar with the risks of developing in a language in this state.

Personally, I wouldn't take any job application that only lists "Swift developer" seriously. Anyone serious enough about iOS development should know that you always need both. Also, not a big fan of telling people what technology to use forcefully.

There are a lot more challenges than just ABI and 32 bit. Swift is not dynamic, lacks many of the features the ObjC runtime provides - so most of Apple's frameworks cannot actually be implemented in the same way with Swift. Basic stuff like KVC, KVO, responder chain, etc. go out of the window. And many of Apple engineers are not convinced throwing these technologies out of the window for some imaginary benefit from Swift is the right direction.

Can't refute any of the article's arguments? Go ad hominem instead!

This is a reddit-style comment, not HN.

One really has nothing to do with the other in this case.

Don't forget "authorities can't snoop your mails and will take us to court because we can't decrypt it."

"Illegal" is not a correct word. It infringes on Apple's EULA, and is at most copyright infringement.

You can. Just edit the files on NTFS, and access them from the mount folder from the CLI. The article is about editing the subsystem files themselves.

Please let me know how editing goes for you on Blender on a semi advanced video project. These types of comments are the worst. It's on the same level as "Yes, GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop because it has brush and layers".

The tiniest of examples: try to enable "advanced" typography features in a document, such as ligatures, small caps, proportional figures, mathematical equations – without having to convert your document into TeX.