Firebase SDK is crashing all iOS apps since this morning

pranshuchittora

Resolved - https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk/issues/16728#is...

yreg

This is not the first time this has happened.

illegalbyte2

I was wondering why random apps kept crashing today. Good to know.

ChrisMarshallNY

Ugh. That's the dark side of these types of dependencies. But they provide a great deal of utility, so I can understand the attraction.

Skwid

I'm hearing an awful lot of "How could they do this to us?" and not a lot of "Wow, maybe we should have read some of this 3rd party code we bundled into 'ALLLL' of our apps" Just an ignorant and naive outsider's take, but to me it paints a pretty damning picture of the state of mobile development.

alex_suzuki

I remember first learning about Firebase when working on Android push notifications, a loooooong time ago (~2011 i think). Over time it grew into this full-featured app development platform, after an aquisition (don’t remember the name). These days however it feels a bit neglected, and somehow poorly bolted on to GCP. I still have a few production apps running on it and news like this reinforces my belief that it’s in decline. What are folks using these days that (ideally) is open source and self-hostable? I don’t want to lock in with another platform. Some of these apps use the offline sync feature of Firestore (apps used in basements and other low-connectivity areas).

nasretdinov

If only there was any way to avoid this, right..? (I don't mean from Google's side, that as well, but that's not the point)

rvz

Keep vibe coding and breaking everything. This will be the new normal as all human “engineers” from staff to seniors are now down levelled to interns and junior engineers when using AI; unable to understand what they are doing and pushing broken updates like this into production with “agents”. Better not blame Claude on this outage.

hzwanip

At least Google engineers can invert a binary tree

hnisjafx40

Yeah, and pinning versions doesn't save you when the config comes from their server.

saagarjha

Ironic. They could save others from crashes, but not themselves.

redwood

A friendly piece of vocabulary assistance: it's "this morning" ("today morning" is not correct English)

jaen

Exactly the same thing also happened in 2020 with the Facebook SDK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097459

frizlab

All iOS apps that are using firebase… It’s an important distinction.

elzbardico

The more we insist on the idiotic idea that we can delegate all coding to agents and don't even need to read it anymore, the more such things will happen. And they will accelerate, as the hidden errors will compound.