Having to do a bunch of work that seems like it should have been made available in the Cocoa APIs is always annoying, but I've been learning how intensely painful it is when you are trying to implement functionality that turns out to be messy to do correctly yourself when you went to a developer conference a few months earlier and learned that it would all be a single method call in a version of the OS that you unfortunately can't design for yet.
I guess it will help me appreciate the API I do have. And build character or something. I guess someday I'll be able to say “Why, back when I was a developer we didn't have all these new-fangled APIs. We had to code all that ourselves, and we liked it!” and it'll all be worthwhile.
Category: Geek
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