it's also one the greatest digital publishing platforms ever invented... sooooo ...

ehnto · on Nov 13, 2015

Sorry, your comment is grandiose enough that I couldn't help but comment.

The platform is just another package manager under the hood. No doubt based off of the hard work from the unix community on which iOS is based.

Apple fanboys have a long history of taking credit for the whole cake when all Apple tend to do is put on the icing.

It is delicious icing no doubt, but credit where it is due.

josteink · on Nov 13, 2015

> The alternative is Android. Which, if you ever tried to program for, is literally worse than going to the dentist.

Parent comment is mostly rubbish, but I'll concede that he has a point about programming for Android.

Compared to most other systems I've touched, programming for Android feels incredibly heavy and tooling reliant.

Android Studio and an updated toolchain has made it less painful than it used to be with Eclipse, but it's still nowhere as nice as making a standard Web-app, or WinForms app or something like that.

I'd love to just blame Java, but really... The Android API could take some sweetening up too.