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: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:20:00 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:51:42 -0700, Britt Durbrow said:
>Swift is too immature to warrant doing anything serious with it yet…
I've stayed away from it for that reason basically. When Xcode x+1 can't even compile code that builds in Xcode x, I'm not too interested (except for toy projects). Yeah, I know there's a code migrator, but then god help you if Xcode x.y+1 has some regression and you need to go back to x.y, which has happened to me more times than I care to count.
Some stability in the language is needed before I use it for big/serious projects.
>Personally, if I had the time to dedicate to it, I’d come up with some
>non-critical project (i.e, something not “serious”, but big enough to
>qualify as “non-trivial") to do in Swift for the purpose of developing
>that skill set.
Exactly. In my case, the new automated UI testing in Xcode 7 looks like the perfect opportunity to write some initial Swift code.
The open sourcing of Swift is also vital. I wouldn't use it otherwise. There are just too many great tools in the llvm ecosystem that would be excluded otherwise. Things like clang-format, address sanitizer, etc that all support Obj-C thanks to it being in clang (otherwise those tools would only support C/C++ I'm sure).
Cheers,
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Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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