Since Swift has come out, I have been using Swift exclusively. IMHO, Swift is the way to go. I think it’s stable at this point. I could see where the changes to the syntax could be confusing or frustrating but having dealt with it since the beginning, to me, its arbitrary.
And that’s also based on my own experience. I didn’t even know what the hell a pointer was until I started using Obj-C because in college I started programming in Java. I think Apple should be focused more on promoting Swift than anything, because its their future. Obviously everything in frameworks is in Obj-C but it’s easy to use Swift and not have to deal with Obj-C for nearly everything when programming for iOS. At least thus far that has been my experience. Obj-C will still be around but Swift closely resembles Java, Haskell, Scala, is far less verbose than Obj-C. there are plenty of brilliant programmers I respect a great deal that won’t go anywhere near Obj-C. As far as news outlets, I wouldn’t let that persuade you at all. If you like Obj-C, there’s certainly nothing wrong with that. :) > On Jun 12, 2015, at 6:18 PM, Eric Dolecki <edole...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I love objective-c and swift. I'll concentrate on swift moving forward but I > still have large code bases in obj-c. > > Sent from Outlook > > _____________________________ > From: Maxthon Chan <m...@maxchan.info> > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 8:52 PM > Subject: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++? > To: Cocoa-Dev List <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> > > > News outlets says that Objective-C is quickly falling out of people’s > attention and developers are turning away from it to Swift and C++. So what > language will you use to code various parts of your new project? Objective-C? > Swift 2? C++? Or the good old plain C? > > For me, it is still Objective-C and plain C, maybe Swift 2 in the future. I > always hated C++ for its confusing feature set and difficulty in mastering > it, let alone fragile ABI and inability to use modules to accelerate > compilation time. I never looked at the original version of Swift language > closely because it is not feature stable yet and it is confusing since all my > previous experiences are Objective-C, Visual Basic .net and a little bit C# > (I am a convert from Windows and Windows Phone camp, gave up Microsoft four > years ago when I began to see the downfall of Windows as a decent operating > system) The Objective-C and C also have the advantage of being able to be > ported rather effortlessly to Linux using GNUstep. > > Swift 2 though, provided all (Objective-)C currently have, so I am interested > and will look into it once I downloaded Xcode 7. > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dmgrant%40infinitydigital.com > > This email sent to dmgr...@infinitydigital.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
