Apple Ships JSON-Based Xcode Project Format, Splitting Developers

Apple released a JSON-based Xcode project file format, replacing the long-used .pbxproj. While prominent developer Paul Hudson hailed it as historic for automation, others criticized it as solving a problem raised years ago and arriving too late.

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