Plus using dependency managers like CocoaPods tends to get unwieldily the larger your team gets. Not only do you have to worry about the libraries as dependencies but now you have to worry about the versioning of the dependency manager. Oy!
Justin Williams writes about third-party dependencies:
As I’ve matured as a professional developer, I’ve learned to understand that a dependency and liability are many times interchangeable
He jokingly mentions how his stance will get him an invitation to the “old guy coders club,” of which I must be a long-time member (here’s proof). As current and former co-workers can attest, I’m notoriously cranky when it comes to third-party dependencies.
I wasn’t always this way, though. In my ill-spent youth I’d add third-party libraries to my projects without concern. It was a no-brainer at the time – they added so much power and snazziness with so little effort on my part.
It wasn’t until I created long-lived software like FeedDemon that I realized their downside. Components I relied upon would stop being upgraded, no longer be reliable, or simply disappear. They’d break when a new version of my…
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