3 years of Xcode: a Gantt chart lib
and what I’ve learned along the way
Technically — at the time of writing — it’s been less than 3 years since I’ve boarded the Apple-oriented devs’ boat, back in 2017, but close enough to share some thoughts, I guess.
A bit of history
I’ve been a Windows and Web app developer since .NET Framework’s very inception (2001), and I consider myself a programmer since like childhood. But times have changed and by the middle of the previous decade, Microsoft has started to pivot hard towards JavaScript, open source, and multi-platform. A move that, combined with the Windows Phone failure, opened my eyes and allowed me to see what else is there in the world.
At first thought, I could surely try to remain mostly a Web developer, and just embrace Angular, Aurelia, React or Vue, and live on as nothing would have happened. But as someone who loved (and I must admit, still loves) WPF — Windows Presentation Foundation — I wanted something else for my core projects, something more powerful, and (to be honest) a more… closed ecosystem too. (Indeed, I’ve always believed that new products and features are better when small teams design them in-house.)
It wasn't an easy process but eventually, I decided to buy a MacBook and get out of my comfort zone big time. I went…
