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Apple 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.

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> 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."

xCode with built-in live rebuild preview simulator plus xCode Cloud with Testflight which auto-builds on git push is a remarkable value for $8.33 a month.

> xCode with built-in live rebuild preview simulator

You couldn't have picked a slower, more buggy, opaque feature to highlight here. Its useful for UI work when it works properly but I feel like I have to mentally prepare myself everytime I switch the canvas on to avoid throwing the computer out the window.

I'll agree on Xcode Cloud though, integrated CI, signing and TestFlight builds with minimal hassle is very nice.

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