Clean way to force view to load subviews early

Question

Recently I wrote some code where I tried to refer to an outlet on a UIViewController I\'d just instantiated with [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWith

Answer 1

merged Rudolph/Swany answers for pre ios9 deployment targets

    if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
        loadViewIfNeeded()
    }
    else {
        // _ = self.view works but some Swift compiler genius could optimize what seems like a noop out
        // hence this perversion from this recipe http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17279604/clean-way-to-force-view-to-load-subviews-early
        view.alpha = 1
    }