Post #1612687
2026-04-07 01:58 UTC
@mattiem when I was first transitioning from C# → ObjC, I was gobsmacked there was no concise DateTime class like I was used to. There were a million levels of abstraction around this in ObjC.
I was whining about this to a colleague. They asked me if there’s too much abstraction, or _just the right amount_ of it? Which was their kind way of saying “this problem is much fucking harder than you think it is”.
That really stuck with me.
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@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 02:05
@caseyliss @mattiem and DateTime in .net had its own laundry list of limitations. that’s how we had to rely on NodaTime.
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@mattiem@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 09:34
@caseyliss heh I really like this story. And the message behind it. Speaking of which, ATProto uses three different formats for storing dates.