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We tried using Swift for a new app but the language isn't ready for prime time. It's an impressive language by itself, but the support for it just isn't there y
by adjwilli 11y ago
We tried using Swift for a new app but the language isn't ready for prime time. It's an impressive language by itself, but the support for it just isn't there yet. Since it's still in infancy things change too much and documentation/stackoverflow is pretty weak. Our app was simple but we spent more time trying to make it work than actually programming and ended up doing an obj-c rewrite in less time. I'm sure this scenario won't be the case for long, but it's the case for now.
- myspy 11y agoI wrote an iOS app around the iOS9 release and did it purely in Swift. It's a great language and easy to grasp. I liked the if let pattern for example. The hard part is using the frameworks and not getting annoyed of XCode slow downs, the language itself is very friendly. Documentation is good too. Worked through the Stanford course which gives you a great introduction and a book about iOS design with Swift implementation.
- seivan 11y agoI would be interested to hear what didn't fit your needs. So far there are some performance issues with containers as value types. Other bottlenecks are structs that contain many references types. Is there anything in particular you can point to, I'd love to take a look.