Good reasons why to not use XIB files?

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Published on 2010-05-04T17:28:25Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 22:08 UTC
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Are there any good reasons why I should not use XIB / NIB files with an highly customized UI and extensive animations and super low memory footprint needs?

As a beginner I started with XIB. Then I figured out I couldn't do just about everything in them. It started to get really hard to customize things the way I wanted them to be. So at the end, I threw all my XIBs away and did it all programmatically.

So when someone asks me if XIB is good, I generally say: Yeah, if you want to make crappy boring interfaces and don't care too much about performance, go ahead. But what else could be a reason not to use XIB?

Am I the only iPhone developer who prefers doing everything programmatically for this reasons?

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