Your opinion about iOS/MacOS development foreground prospect

[jamesdouble]

Hi, I am a Chinese iOS Developer.

iOS Develop have been publish almost ten year,
and I think iOS Native Develop is not so popular and less market demanding than before.

So I would like ask your opinion about iOS/MacOS development's future trending?

[mxcl]

Yeah I agree that iOS has peaked and macOS was always niche, especially in this era of cross platform Javascript. Additionally, the sheer number of new people learning iOS and entering the industry over the last 8 years has been astonishing, so the days when 10+ jobs were competing for you all at once are gone.

Having said this, iOS is still an enormous platform, and it's the platform that is usually still targeted: first, and for the “flagship” app for that company. And everyone needs both apps. And everyone needs apps.

It’s hard to ignore the Javascript trend though, this is growing as the choice for mid-level shops to use since they can crank stuff out faster, and for both platforms, and mostly end-users are fine with it.

So if employability is your main concern then I would gain experience there. One thing I always say about the tech industry is that it is always changing and you must keep an eye on the horizon. Once upon a time knowing Flash made you the highest paid developer around, and then rapidly, within a couple of years it was dead.

I lament this though, as IMO JS apps are junk.

I believe in the future of Swift as a cross platform language and personally I am actively working on tooling that will start the Swift-as-a-cross-platform-app-solution revolution that I plan to release soon.

Another thing to consider: 10 years is all the time there is for iOS, so you are in the top 1% of iOS developers, you can milk that.