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Ya, I was just gonna post this. Scala has more powerful generics and an eco-system of, oh I don't know, every java library ever created. It's also got the Play
by joslin01 11y ago
Ya, I was just gonna post this. Scala has more powerful generics and an eco-system of, oh I don't know, every java library ever created. It's also got the Play framework and Akka. When it comes to rationally planned web development, Swift is very low on the totem pole and a bunch of cute language features aren't gonna change that.
- falsedan 11y agoSwift's biggest advantage over Scala is its tight coupling with a commendable IDE. Perfect doesn't seem to address how debugging a server-side app will work with Xcode…
- joslin01 11y agoI agree with you and that's a nice rebuttal. I use XCode daily since I code in Swift for an iOS project. Great tool. However, I really wouldn't trade so much away just to stay in the same IDE and I certainly wouldn't construct a plan to do so. All the people down-voting me are just Swift fanatics who probably haven't touched the language all that deep. Good language, love the replacement for Objective-C, and you could argue GCD makes Akka unnecessary (though I wouldn't go that far), but again not fit for web development in my humble opinion..
- fleitz 11y agoXCode (for ObjC) is very commendable for no longer crashing every 5 minutes, other than that its pretty crappy compared to other IDEs created by multi-billion dollar companies (even some open source IDEs are better) When working in swift it's as if someone rewrote the thing in Java. As obnoxious as eclipse can be, it at least code completes in a reasonable time.
- tychuz 11y agoI don't know, most people I know use XCode only for drag and drop quick UI stuff and for actual development they use AppCode (also supports Swift 2).