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Re:Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion by pjmlp on Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:38AM (#5218290)
It always baffles me the amount of developers that prefer to endure designing GUIs with code instead of GUI designers.

This doesn't scale when doing projects where the UI tends to be redesigned every few days.

In a few hours it is possible to design UIs that some require days to do it.

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Re:Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion by josephhainline on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @10:06PM (#5248726)
Interface Builder doesn't let you do anything very dynamic (moving panels, things that animate, etc) anyway. In my experience, a person experienced at programmatic view creation is a bit slower on initial creation, but a lot faster at refactoring or changes. A few well placed variables, for example, gives you a lot of instantaneous visual control.
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