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Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

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Razengan ◴[] No.45060385[source]
I have been trying to make iOS/macOS apps for years, but god, every time I have a go at it, Apple's documentation regime is still hot garbage. Eons ago I gave up Windows development because of Microsoft's inconsistent and uncertain APIs, but MS had great documentation. Apple is the opposite.

The "best" way to get the "latest" details on Apple's APIs is to suffer through mind-numbingly vapid WWDC videos with their reverse uncanny valley presenters (where humans pretend to be robots) and keep your full attention on them to catch a fleeting glimpse of a single method or property that does what you were looking for. Even 1.5x/2x speed is torture. I tried to get AIs to sift through the transcripts of their videos, and may Skynet forgive me for this cruelty.

Then when you go try to use that API, oops it's been changed in the current beta and there's no further documentation on it except auto-generated headers.

They also removed bookmarks from Xcode's built-in documentation browser years ago, and it doesn't retain a memory of previously open tabs, and often seems to be behind the docs on their websites.

I wish they would just provide open-source sample apps of each type (document-based, single-window etc.) for each of their platforms that fully use the latest APIs. At least that would be easier to ask AIs on, since that is what they seem to be going for now anyway.

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1. balder1991 ◴[] No.45066263[source]
Something you might find useful: https://askwwdc.com/