It seemed to me that my decision on start learning Swift this year dodged a bullet here. Still my Swift experience will not start until I built a Swift compiler on Linux.
For me the embedded land is still C and C only. In 8-bit land Microchip XC8 for PIC as well as SDCC for Intel 8051 are C only, and AVR-GCC’s C++ support is rarely used by me (unless I am doing something with Arduino) and on 32-bit since I generally don’t use Cortex-M, the ARM9, ARM11 and Cortex-A processors that I use generally runs Linux and hence GNUstep, so those will use a mix of C and Objective-C. Call me a weirdo as my recent Web project is written in pure C, as an Apache 2.4 module. > On Jun 13, 2015, at 09:31, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote: > > >> On 13 Jun 2015, at 08:51, Maxthon Chan <m...@maxchan.info> wrote: >> >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ > > I wouldn’t take a sod of notice what “News Outlets” say. They wouldn’t know a > programming language from a large hole in the ground and are mostly > regurgitating frothy press articles and random surveys. > > I would start learning Swift. It was a rough experience last year, it’s > looking orders of magnitude better this year, because Apple put some serious > hard work into it and responded to the piles and piles of bug reports they > must have had when it first came out. It’s where the puck is going at least > for Apple OS programming, and it’s pretty usable although it’s going to take > me a while before I really start getting the full power out of it. > > I hadn’t touched C++ for years until recently, but it came in very handy for, > of all things, some embedded programming. > > So right tool for the right job. I’d keep them all sharp and use them > appropriately.
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