Sophia Teutschler has been open-sourcing her previous apps (Tipulator, CoverSutra, and Groceries) lately, and as I browsed by way of the repositories, it set me eager about this Invoice Gates quote:
“Most individuals overestimate what they’ll do in a single 12 months and underestimate what they’ll do in ten.”
None of Sophia’s apps is strictly ten years previous, however they’re actually of that era¹, and it struck me how a lot issues have modified as I browsed the repositories.
The very first thing that struck me as I opened CoverSutra was that all the supply information have been within the undertaking root earlier than I remembered that Xcode’s default was to do all undertaking organisation with teams as an alternative of folders. 😍
However the variations go a lot deeper. Neither the language nor UI framework that I’d use as we speak to start out an app existed ten years in the past. 😳 The gap travelled over the previous ten years is placing.
Then, it’s been greater than a 12 months since Apple shipped async/await assist in Swift. You might have checked out these APIs that got here with Swift 5.5 and thought, “I’ll have my complete codebase transformed in a 12 months for positive”, however I’m assured that loads of you continue to have operation queues, GCD, and different applied sciences in use.
It appears like numerous software program know-how is on the sting of adjusting the world in main methods. All the totally different AI merchandise are exploding, and naturally, don’t overlook that yearly is the 12 months Apple will introduce an AR/VR product! I’d urge you to not bear Invoice’s phrases in your thoughts, although, and think about the place these applied sciences might be in ten years slightly than one. 🤯
¹ To be 100% crystal clear, I don’t say this to criticise Sophia’s work in any respect. Her apps have been Apple Design Award winners and the envy of all the Goal-C neighborhood. That is about how the ecosystem has developed.
Dave Verwer 
