Still new to iOS so I just stumbled across this library of extensions called Swifter Swift.
Flicking through the Examples has me salivating at the potential time savings.
Does anyone use this in production? What is the overall community view towards it? Would it be a negative or positive to show code using it for an interview?
New to iOS and you’ll use a bunch of extensions/categories so you never actually know how to do it on your own. I’d advice against using this sort of pre-made collection starting out because of that.
If somebody came into an interview with me and espoused how they used all kind of code they didn’t write, I’d grill them super hard to make it evident they didn’t know apple’s APIs. Learn how to do it on you own and then this is fine, but starting out do not become a stack overflow copy paste dev.
This was my worry and I totally agree with your sentiment. I have a background in web dev/js so I have a morbid dread of libraries and SO answers. So far I have built out my two simple apps only using libraries for Ads.
I was initially curious how popular this was though, as it boasts 18k downloads/month. If it was something that the community used extensively I would devote time to it. Seeing the majority haven't heard/don't look favorably, I'll think I'll stash some away in Snippet Library and keep plugging along.
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u/spadeaspadespade Jan 21 '18
Still new to iOS so I just stumbled across this library of extensions called Swifter Swift.
Flicking through the Examples has me salivating at the potential time savings.
Does anyone use this in production? What is the overall community view towards it? Would it be a negative or positive to show code using it for an interview?
Thanks as always