Apple’s biggest developer news at WWDC that nobody’s talking about: Bitcode
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference was so jam-packed with interesting news that many developers have missed one of the biggest changes the company unveiled: Bitcode.
Missing the news could be excused, because Apple didn’t really talk about it much at all. The documentation on the developer center doesn’t provide much information and even the sessions themselves didn’t contain all that much information.
The most information we got on Bitcode was during Apple’s ‘platform state of the union’ session at WWDC. Andreas Wendker, VP of OS X platform experience, said that Bitcode “allows the App Store to re-optimize apps for each kind of device before they’re delivered to the user.”
This means that apps can automatically “take advantage of new processor capabilities we might be adding in the future, without you re-submitting to the store.”
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