Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?
Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?
- Subject: Re: Language options: Objective-C, Swift, C or C++?
- From: Carl Hoefs <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:42:57 -0700
> On Jun 13, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Paul Scott <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Swift insinuates itself into the developer community with typical grandiose marketing hype. But what practical value does it really offer? What failing, besides a distaste of Objective-C by some — excluding myself — required a whole new— really, a mishmash of other languages — programming language? Further, what does Swift offer to those outside the Apple developer community that would motivate them to adopt an open source Swift? At best, the answer appears to be, “Not much.”
Bingo. Even after reading all the posts in this thread, I still don’t know what problem Swift addresses, and no one seems to be able to answer that question — not even Apple in its marketing hype.
When I saw what ObjC had to offer over & above using just straight C, I was floored by the potential, and I haven’t been disappointed. It seems to me a near-perfect and quite pragmatic fit, especially for Apple development. The key here is “pragmatic”. It pretty much fits hand-in-glove with all aspects of modern software development (not just for Apple devices), especially with the recent (evolutionary) extensions to support ARC, GCD, blocks, and the like.
Seriously, I still don’t understand what Swift is all about. Maybe it’s just me but I can’t get past the feel that it’s an unoriginal mish-mash of poor ingredients (python, Ruby, C#, etc.) If it were clearly a major step forward, evolutionary or revolutionary, I think I would be seeing it by now.
-Carl
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