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: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 09:46:15 +1000
> On 13 Jun 2015, at 8:09 pm, Michael David Crawford <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> The problem I've got is that those who pay for iOS and OS X
> development have it in their heads that one must know either
> Objective-C or Swift.
You do need one of those to code for Apple devices, even if all your own code is in C++, because that’s what the frameworks use, and all the published APIs are expressed in. It’s a bit like the old days when you’d code in C or C++ but all the published APIs were in Pascal - you had to have an understanding of Pascal to follow the documentation at the very least, and to work with OS-defined data structures.
For me, coming from 12 years of C++ to Objective-C in the early 2000s was a huge boost in productivity. A much simpler language can actually boost output because you spend less time trying to understand all the “features” you never actually need or use. YMMV.
—Graham
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