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SOLVED: Question about Visual Format Language

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	@BaderBouta Jul '20 So I'm at project 6 of 100 days of Swift. I'm currently learning about writing auto layout/constraints programmatically. The syntax of it all just looks stupidendously trivial to write, it makes 0 intuitive sense to me. My question, is there another way of writing out these constraints programmatically besided VFL? `view.addConstraints( NSLayoutConstraint.constraints(withVisualFormat: "V:\|[label1(labelHeight@999)]-[label2(label1)]-[label3(label1)]-[label4(label1)]-[label5(label1)]-(>=10)-\|", options: [], metrics: metrics, views: viewsDictionary))` Makes no sense. 3
	@nemecek-filip Jul '20 Yeah VFL is a crazy thing, I never used it really. And yes there is indeed a way using something called layout anchors where you basically create constraints like any other objects in code. It takes lot of lines of code but they mostly aren't complicated and can be made shorter with helper methods and extensions. 5
	@BaderBouta Jul '20 @nemecek-filip thank you alot for the answer. This is all really strange to me, coming from the web world I would have assumed that Apple could have come up with a lot more elegant way than this. Also the anchor thing doesn't seem very clean too. I guess this is also why they came up with SwiftUI no? 3
	@nemecek-filip Jul '20 Well the UIKit is there since the very first iPhones and so it evolved gradually on the available foundations I dont think developers would be stoked to learn new UI framework every two years :-) But yeah SwiftUI is answer to this and other UIKit complexities. 4
	@BaderBouta Jul '20 @nemecek-filip Thank you a ton Filip. 3

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