alt Hacker NewsApple has always made it painful to step too far off the path with their tooling and frameworks and cocoapods was not immune to that pain. I'm grateful of what they made and the pressure they put on Apple to make things better, but I was very happy to remove yet another 3rd party dependency from our toolchain the moment we were able to.
> Apple has always made it painful to step too far off the path
Or, "Apple has always avoided spending dev cycles too far off the path, electing instead to make the path itself easier."
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