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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by lenkite on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:32AM (#43277843)
My deep-seated guess is that the switch from a simple language like Objective-C to the complex Swift language with its humongous compile times has caused developer productivity to be broken. No time to fix bugs, no time to refactor, no time to re-iterate on improving features because time is all taken up by compilation and grokking complexity.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by fingerlocks on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:50AM (#43277938)
Compile time issues are almost always type inference issues. Reducing chained functions and multiple levels of protocol witness indirection usually speeds this up dramatically.

The other big time sucks are C++ interop and dozens of micro-dependencies (react-native).

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