Wow. Fuck converting code over to swift 3. Nothing automatic about it.

I think most criticism about iOS development is BS. Except this. A hundred times this.

is it really that bad (not a swift developer)? Did they break backwards compatibility?

@rainmitchell swift 2.2 (the latest version) is no longer compatible. They are trying to get everyone to move over to swift 3, but in the meantime to appease people not ready to make the full switch they created a new version swift 2.3. Xcode has a converter that is supposed to rewrite your current code as either swift 2.3 or 3, but neither transition is seamless to say the least. On top of that you have to hope the pods you have been using have made versions compatible with swift 3 and update to those. In my instance I have to change every Alamofire request in my app as well as how I am parsing JSON.

To add to the frustration, it doesn't even seem like Swift 3 is any more user friendly than 2.2.

@devshopmike oh god! It's like Python 3