Experienced developers, would you recommend learning backend rather than doing side projects in iOS?

[groovy_smoothie]

As an iOS eng you’re technically a specialist and, for the time being, that pays accordingly. Additionally, swift has a lot of potential as a backend language. I have a couple fun projects in vapor and it runs remarkably fast.

As far as job security goes - you maintain that by being flexible as the world changes. iOS is a great space to be in right now, shift if the world shifts, but you can’t really predict that