Monthly Archives: September 2015

 
21
Sep
2015
 

Massive View Controllers

by Marcus Zarra

While at Empirical Development and then MartianCraft I had been distanced from all of the inventive solutions that other development teams have been coming up with for the past few years. I was living in a bubble of our development teams.

Now that I am working independently again, I am being exposed to a large number of interesting code bases.

It came as quite a surprise to me that view controllers are considered bad by many developers and that they have been coming up with some rather intersting solutions to make them more “manageable”.

To me, this is an indication that many developers have lost the perspective on what should and what should not be in a view controller. For some reason there is a misconception going around that everything belongs in the view controller.

Madness!

Lets break it down.
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