Will they include a lesson on how to make Byte set up a provisioning profile in itunesconnect and install a code signing key in your local keychain and and enter the MAC address of his tethered device into developer.apple.com and then hopefully, just maybe XCode will allow you to run what you wrote?

Snarky snarky!

Semi warranted. But I teach swift to teenagers, and have set up hundreds of devices/machines with Xcode/etc at this point. Yes, it's still prone to random bugs, like most software, but with sideloading it's getting pretty darn close to plug in your phone, press Run, and It Just Works.

> It Just Works

Even if that's true, you're still locked into Apple's world—a privilege you paid for.

If I'm snarky it's because calling this "revolutionary" is a slap in the face to the people who've spent their careers working to understand early education through computers, without the ulterior motive of said platform lock-in.

I cry a little every time that I realize that Apple and Microsoft have traded positions.

Development tools should be open, at least we should be able to target platforms generically.