> Whether you have any business in the Apple ecosystem or not, I think you'll agree they made some good moves on several fronts this year.
I am extremely curious whether Combine will turn out to be a good move for the ecosystem. It's not like competent Swift developers grow on trees right now, and having to grok reactive programming seems like yet another barrier to entry.
Due to all the overlapping transitions, iOS developers soon need to know some Objective-C (and by extension C), Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, XIBs/storyboards/classic MVC, Combine, the pointless code signing mess, and some web technologies for hybrid screens. I wouldn't be surprised if that's when Apple loses the mobile toolkit wars just like they've already lost on the desktop.
I am extremely curious whether Combine will turn out to be a good move for the ecosystem. It's not like competent Swift developers grow on trees right now, and having to grok reactive programming seems like yet another barrier to entry.
Due to all the overlapping transitions, iOS developers soon need to know some Objective-C (and by extension C), Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, XIBs/storyboards/classic MVC, Combine, the pointless code signing mess, and some web technologies for hybrid screens. I wouldn't be surprised if that's when Apple loses the mobile toolkit wars just like they've already lost on the desktop.