I think this speaks to the general understanding that “unlearning” is far harder than learning in the first place.
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or that senior developers have been burned too many times and have developed a healthy survival instinct.
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There’s truth to this, but it cuts both ways. It’s hard to expand your horizons when trying to avoid being burned.
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I agree. It's a balancing act. RAC is a big change though. Stuff like BrightFutures or PromiseKit is a good step
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Yeah, for sure. The strongest objections I see are not from folks trying out libraries like those.
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RAC is also hard to debug, and analyze stack traces because of all the callbacks.
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I just had an awful experience debugging a signal graph; would love to brainstorm debugging tools/APIs at ☕️!
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I’m happy to talk about it, but I think the problem has historically been doing it, not a lack of thought.
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i.e. there are a ton of things that could make it an exponentially better experience, but it needs investment.
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there's some mach facility for adding context to threads that shows up in a crash. uiactivity or something.