> On Aug 27, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Thomas Wetmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have also been disappointed on how much difficulty I have had when 
> incorporating new Apple technologies.

In the case of Swift, I think it’s mostly just that it’s new (and still 
developing fast) and quite different from what we’re used to. Apple has done a 
great job documenting it — I remember being blown away at WWDC last year by how 
good the Swift books were.

In some other areas, like auto-layout, Apple’s made adoption harder than it 
needs to be by not documenting it well, or by hiding the documentation (in a 
sub-basement behind a door reading “Beware Of The Leopard”.) The Xcode IDE 
documentation is wretched, I might even say “insulting”; super-complex things 
like build settings are given one page with a screenshot and some superficial 
one-liners about what the buttons do. Similarly-complex GUI tools in other 
domains like audio or illustration get big tomes of documentation, but the 
Xcode IDE (I’m not talking about the SDKs!) has basically a pamphlet.

—Jens
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