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This article is a strange one. They mention WhatsApp and some other mobile products but then proceed to frame everything into the context of a browser.

WebRTC works without a browser too FYI

This really just sounds like nit-picking, the language is miles ahead of most other languages.

You’re assuming the manager hired senior engineers who can competently know the best strategies in each. By contrast an inexperienced engineer might take the worst path

Title is incorrect should be: “Why I gave up on being an Android developer”

The iOS development ecosystem is much more pleasurable to work in. I’ve had almost a decade of experience building BOTH native iOS and Android apps and the issues OP mentioned are all workable.

Mobile is here to stay :) and will be for the foreseeable long term, most of internet and web traffic is now routed through mobile devices, and building native experiences will always trump a web based one on mobile.

Having worked with competent and incompetent managers. I can tell you a competent manager increases my productivity by a significant fold.

By shielding the team away from dumb political games, providing technical / architecture / design input, and controlling meetings and direction for meeting. Ex: one of the competent managers I knew could always “win” the argument for our team, I saw them convince an otherwise unshakable team to make changes by themselves (convincing an entire team to make a necessary change).

The best managers I worked with were less about control, they trusted you, and ensured no one got in your way, and they were also skilled at architecture / coding themselves.

Pretty much this there are 400 active current issues in Texture, same issues when I worked at smaller companies who wanted to do the “cool” thing and follow FB.

Unneeded abstractions

Sure.

4.) Put scrollview inside base view 5.) Register pan gesture and delegates and write logic for full, mid, none snap points

You clearly don’t need another whole framework to do the above

What performance issues? You’re telling me the native implementation has performance issues over RN?

And I am not a React hater, I use React Js a lot

Yes I’ve worked at FAANG companies, and yes it’s great Instagram used AsyncDisplayKit (which is archived by the way).

For most companies (maybe all), it’s not needed. Apple is doing a fantastic job abstracting views into SwiftUI and Android team is doing the same with Jetpack Compose.

Then what? More abstractions over abstractions to achieve 60 or 120 FPS through another framework?

And this is not related to the OP post, making these bottom sheets is a breeze. Literally:

1.) Custom ViewController with custom UIView as base view 2.) Add as child or present over root controller 3.) Translate and animate custom base view from bottom (top... left... whatever the hell you like)

Lol at all the web dudes amazed by this, making this on native mobile is a breeze (Android and iOS)

Your article reminds me a lot of Brandon Kase’s talk regarding Algebriac animations written in Swift

Highly recommended watch:

https://youtu.be/dyiLLdkzzRc

I mean it’s pretty obvious, any abstraction that aims to consolidate multiple platforms will come at the cost of performance

Ha funny you mention this I actually said something similar though not as descriptive as what you stated in an interview before.

I’m arguing this is not such a great thing because I’ve noticed a few things that have occurred due to me being like this:

The gf will complain, a lot, that you don’t spend enough time with her.

You disregard eating sometimes (and I try to stay as fit as possible, sometimes I will just forgo gym because work > everything)

I have almost 0 balance for personal life, most of time from waking up is straight to

I have the opposite problem I can sit and focus for hours and hours this causes me health issues as sometimes I forget to take care of myself

And the flagellation of Uber, Lyft continues I wonder if this is the straw that will eventually break the proverbial camels back and lead to the demise of ride share apps in the short term

All those features are present in other languages too, the premise that no other useful or mainstream languages don’t is false. For example Swift has all of those features.

Been writing Swift for years, this is a very weak argument :)

Unfortunately this is often the case at larger companies, unless you find a really cool manager / PM to work under who just trusts you — note this can be achieved over time.

I’m talking from personal experience of going rogue :)

So I’m curious will property and rental prices drop in San Francisco now that funding is drying up? Can’t seem to find much information about that. For example a friend of mine who was laid off still has to pay $3300 / month for his studio. Curious how long this will last for?

It could be a multitude of reasons. Try not to think of it as a robotic pipeline even though it appears that way. The interviewer could have been sincere but there are a lot of hard decisions / politics / etc. behind the scenes:

• The hiring manager for the team(s) could have been mandated to put in a hiring freeze

• You may have provided an optimal solution but the interviewer couldn’t see himself working with you everyday — at the end of the day this is what it’s all about you want to hire someone you are able to work well with everyday. Not likely the case here though something to consider

• Budget could have gone down

• Headcount reductions

• They night have found a better fit candidate

• Things might be chaotic as even if you do hired your can’t come into HQ until the virus passes

• [Insert any other reason here]

As an alternative if you build SDKs or do work in gaming, mobile, or anything involving images really you will end up understanding / implementing this or more than this.

I’m sorry to knock down OP here but I’ve been doing Mac development for a long long time.

A default app to me as a bare minimum involves:

• Custom Application class • URI specifications • Custom NSDocument • Custom window controller • Customized NSToolbar • CoreData support • “Feature” targets / I.e. Todo target

I’ve written a script which sets and generates all this for me:

macapp new —with-ui —styles

It’s been 6 years since Valhalla was announced why it’s still in prototype befuddles me. If anything, getting value types out the door will have significant performance improvements and least barrier of entry for current java / jvm based programmers.

Would be great if Records were actually bonafide value types lol as in not allocated on the heap. Otherwise it’s just nice syntactic sugar like data classes in Kotlin

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Some people here are mentioning code reviews for their teams and how they don’t enjoy that.

I would say this article is missing a fair point. I’ve learned a lot by just browsing Github.

For example if I’m interested in solving a Caching problem I’ll skip some of the open source libraries around caching and how it’s implemented.

Often times you run into a very elegant and readable solution that someone has created. And the most interesting takeaway from that is that you can get inside the persons head around API design and implementation.

When I stumble upon an awesome elegant library I always either take a mental note about it or try a small sample implementation of my own. This has helped me synthesize great APIs designs over my career. You develop your own style over time by picking and choosing your elegant solutions, and eventually you also come up with your own bright ideas through language features or loopholes that come across as exceptionally elegant.

Yes it was I’m one of the ones affected. I’ve done mobile engineering both iOS and Android for around ~5 years.

If anyone’s looking :)

It’s not just Utah they have headquarters in San Francisco as well lots of people let go here too.

I feel like a lot of these designs look pretty but aren’t exactly great UX

I’m not sure how much this matters but I’ve been on TRT therapy for a while now and I remember before I started my limbs would get so cold, and hands would be so cold to touch.

After therapy my significant other tells me I’m like a body heater constantly radiating heat possibly due to high synthesis and metabolism.

I’m curious but there was a chart I saw as well regarding men’s testosterone levels declining over the last century I wonder how related that is to lowered body temperatures