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If you use it for more than a few hours you just wont think of it anymore.
by wingerlang 9y ago
If you use it for more than a few hours you just wont think of it anymore.
- pivo 9y agoI write in both ObjC and Swift. It takes more than a few hours to get used to both languages but it’s also true that you get used to both. I prefer the relative terseness of Swift and also find the language more elegant and safer than ObjC.
- abritinthebay 9y agoTried that. Obj-C was just constant nails-on-a-chalkboard annoying. Too verbose, overly clunky syntax, etc. So I’m afraid that wasn’t the case.
- wingerlang 9y agoI guess hours was an understatement. The point is that I guess most people hate the style on first sight, I definitely hated it. But it's been a while and now I like it a lot, the verboseness makes the code and intentions clear (you just have to read a bit).
- abritinthebay 9y agoIf it was the only open on iOS then yes, I could live with it. It’s not - thank god - so I don’t have to. So I won’t.
- Apocryphon 9y agoObjective-C has verbosity that's very expressive and serves a purpose.
- abritinthebay 9y agoWhile true, I find I can do just as much in other languages that done have such an ugly verbose syntax. It’s ugly for a reason but that still means it’s ugly.
- Apocryphon 9y agoEh, I'd argue that its verbosity is less ugly than say Java. I can see why people might thing square brackets are ugly, though I prefer it to the double-colon and angle bracket fest that is C++, but what else do you find uniquely ugly about Objective-C? Infix operators are nifty and promote clarity.