[HN Gopher] Apple pushes breaking Foundation change in iOS 18 wi...
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Apple pushes breaking Foundation change in iOS 18 without tying to
SDK version
Author : rockbruno
Score : 41 points
Date : 2024-09-11 17:57 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| tedunangst wrote:
| The only thing that makes people angrier than Apple ignoring bugs
| is Apple fixing bugs.
| YawningAngel wrote:
| At some point bugs become expected behaviour
| toyg wrote:
| Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1172/
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| Sounds like the issue is they corrected the bug without
| documenting the breaking change and did it with minimal notice.
| Worse yet is that the API change will impact all software
| running on the host. So even if your distributed program works
| today, it will subtlety break when the user upgrades their host
| OS.
| syspec wrote:
| Well to be fair it is a developer beta
| layer8 wrote:
| IOS 18 is at RC now and is scheduled to be released on
| Monday. Existing apps affected by this behavior change will
| break or misbehave when users update their devices to iOS
| 18 next week.
| paxys wrote:
| If a bug has been shipped to production and people are
| depending on it, it isn't a bug but a feature. If you then
| "fix" it without notice, it is a breaking change. This is all
| software/platform development 101.
| robertlagrant wrote:
| Just like the coders who rely on electric shocks[0]!
|
| [0] https://programmerhumor.io/programming-
| memes/stackoverflow-h...
| cruano wrote:
| Since when is a beta version of something "production"?
| paxys wrote:
| The bug was _fixed_ in the beta. It has been on iOS for
| many production versions.
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