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Can I blissfully go on writing OS X and iOS apps in Objective-C (I spent 15+ years training brain cells in Obj-C)? Aaron H. seems to suggest I can -- Apple isn'
by waynecochran 11y ago
Can I blissfully go on writing OS X and iOS apps in Objective-C (I spent 15+ years training brain cells in Obj-C)? Aaron H. seems to suggest I can -- Apple isn't just pong to deprecate the entire language one morning in early June I hope. I have learned just enough Swift to read it, but not ready to invest the time to learn it well.
- glhaynes 11y agoYou're definitely safe writing your own apps in it for well into the foreseeable future — there's not only way too much app code out there for it to be deprecated soon, but the vast majority of the system and bundled apps are in Objective-C. I'd expect Objective-C jobs, though, to decline in number over time as Swift jobs rise. If you're doing it professionally, not learning Swift is going to increasingly limit your options, perhaps pretty rapidly — a few months ago, I got turned down for a job in part because of lack of Swift experience. Ended up landing a different job where we're writing a Swift app and step 1 for everyone on the team was "learn Swift".