Ben Barnett

I've written a bit of retrospective on creating the new version of Base. It covers a bunch of mistakes and some things that went well. Hopefully it'll be useful to others, whether as example or warning!

https://menial.co.uk/blog/2025/09/29/retrospective-on-making-base-3/

Retrospective on making Base 3

The first version of Base was released in late 2008. It grew into a v2 by early 2011 and kept going until the last feature release in 2020 (with a few bugfix releases after). On the 4th July 2020, I started a new branch for Base v3.

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Sep 29, 2025 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadPadraigSep 29, 2025
@__bb Congratulations on shipping and thanks for this honest post about the process!
Show threadBen BarnettSep 29, 2025
@PadraigOCinneide Thanks, that means a lot 🙂
Show threadMarcin KrzyzanowskiSep 29, 2025

@__bb > This was far more work than using someone else’s existing control and customising it to my needs.

😍 🥂 happy you like it

Show threadBen BarnettSep 29, 2025
@krzyzanowskim I really do, thank you!
Show threadTom HammingSep 29, 2025
@__bb how do you link different libraries using .xcconfig files?
Show threadMartin Du4Sep 29, 2025
@__bb I just discovered this via the algo and I love it. Thanks for sharing.