--- title: Momentum | daily.dev description: An essay from Tuist's founder arguing that developer productivity in creative work like app development goes beyond raw efficiency, since friction erodes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/momentum-uqgqywnsg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Momentum | daily.dev og:description: An essay from Tuist's founder arguing that developer productivity in creative work like app development goes beyond raw efficiency, since friction erodes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/momentum-uqgqywnsg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UQGQYwNsG.png og:image:alt: Momentum og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Momentum **[ Tuist ](https://daily.dev/sources/tuist-blog)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An essay from Tuist's founder arguing that developer productivity in creative work like app development goes beyond raw efficiency, since friction erodes momentum and stifles innovation. It walks through five common momentum blockers for Apple platform teams: multi-repo setups, slow feedback loops from the Xcode toolchain, friction sharing app previews compared to the web ecosystem, accidental complexity in large Xcode projects, and flaky tests exacerbated by Swift Testing's parallelization. Tuist's own tooling (selective builds/testing, binary caching, previews) is offered as a partial remedy, alongside general advice like avoiding heavy Swift macros and embracing monorepos with selective CI. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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