You don’t even develop if…

15 points from the eyes of an iOS Developer

1. you have to compile every 30 seconds to check what you just did works.

2. you don’t remember life before storyboards

3. you’ve never had a merge conflict between storyboards that took all night to solve.

4. you’ve never fixed a compilation problem by restarting xcode

5. you’ve never fixed a compilation problem by restarting your computer. (hello ‘copy swiftdocs’)

6. you’ve never thought how much simpler life would be if you ditched iOS and went and did cordova

7. you’ve never had the keyboard block a submit button

8. you haven’t had at least 1 person per week tell you about their great idea for an app that’s worth billions that they’ll give you 10% of if you develop it for them.

9. the name Mattt Thompson means nothing to you.

10. you don’t get slightly nervous every time you submit a review/new app to the app store and are in the ‘waiting for review’ stage of your life

11. you’ve never wondered what life would be like without Alamofire.

12. you’ve never been to raywenderlich.com

13. you’ve never look helplessly at Cocoa Error 4.

14. SIGABRT doesn’t make you mad.

15. you’ve never sat up, part excitement, part dread, as you see how much Apple has changed your beloved xcode, how many crucial API endpoints they’ve deprecated, and how much new stuff you’re going to have to learn to stay relevant. (hello swift, swift 1.2, swift 2, watchkit, home kit, health kit… just to name a few)