ASIHTTPRequest
lastmod 2014-04-01created 2014-04-012 edits
ASIHTTPRequest is the most widely used networking library among iOS developers, and it became popular for its concise interface and improved performance. Seeing that it still holds second place in Github's Objective-C Most Watched Overall, it is easy to tell how long this library has been loved by iOS developers.
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Unfortunately, however, the end of development of this library was announced last September. The news is more than six months old, but because the library has been used for so long and introduced in so many places, the news of its discontinuation does not seem to have spread widely.
There are probably many reasons, but in the post announcing the end of development, the author confesses the reason: "the internals have become too complex, and some architectural choices accumulated over the years have made the project hard to maintain."