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Build an iOS app on Linux or Windows

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168 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 01:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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malloc-0x90 ◴[25 Jun 25 05:23 UTC] No.44373871[source]▶
Never built on Apple, last time I tried:

it asked me to update Xcode;

Xcode asked me to update the OS first;

and the OS asked me to buy a new 1300$€ MacBook hardware (with similar specs, the one I was using wasn't even that old/slow).

So to quote Rick and Morty i though: "That's just subscription with extra steps!" - and made a windows program and an Android app.

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zombot ◴[25 Jun 25 05:34 UTC] No.44373921[source]▶
Exactly. Apparently Apple still finds enough idiots who perform that dance, but they've lost me. I can only hope others will follow and xtool looks like it can help.
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can16358p ◴[25 Jun 25 07:33 UTC] No.44374571[source]▶
Don't worry, those "idiots" are doing perfectly fine with great salaries and a nice developer experience who apparently figured out using archaic hardware for developing newer devices is practically pointless even if there were software support.
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1. realusername ◴[25 Jun 25 09:49 UTC] No.44375404[source]▶
Good salary for sure but as for the developer experience, the iOS tooling is one of the worst you can have in the modern era. I'd even pick the nodejs anarchy over xcode and that says a lot.