Let's not get melodramatic here. But creating something like shouldiusecocoapods.com) hurts. It personally hurts the developers of the tool that help hundred of thousands of aspiring and established developers. But more importantly it hurts the community at large.
Every time a flash of "I hate CocoaPods" happens on the internet another person has probably been discouraged at getting involved in the larger community. You're welcome to not like the tool, you're also welcome to your opinion. Hating on something as mundane _and necessary_ as a dependency manager for a language though, is not constructive.
We're stuck right now using Apple's tools which are not production worthy and may not be for a few months. Or maybe we have to wait a year. Who knows? I'm experiencing crashes multiple times a day trying to write a Swift app. These tools are not open, and whilst the developer community has been filling gaps we're stuck with what we have from Apple side. We're on the other side, we have to work together and help each other out.
Note to self: Never accept a ‘small looking’ update to @CocoaPods. Now I’d like my project back how it was…
— Kevin Mitchell (@kamitchell) September 28, 2014The @CocoaPods experiment is over for me, too much bad experience. Back to git subtrees and manual dependencies.
— Kevin Mitchell (@kamitchell) September 28, 2014@alloy @CocoaPods And I’ll wish you success on the project and check back later when I can do some peg-shaving. Some parts, I really like.
— Kevin Mitchell (@kamitchell) September 28, 2014