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I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I used to absolutely love writing Objective C, like totally get into a zone and lose track of time. I've never

• fooker 7y ago
  This is what most people seem to totally miss. You want to solve interesting problems. You do not want interesting tools getting in the way. A boring, old, flawed tool would often work better for solving the problem without interruptions.
  • AsyncAwait 7y ago
    > This is what most people seem to totally miss. No, they don't 'miss' it. I think what you're missing is that is perfectly possible to 'get' optionals and be as, if not more, productive than in ObjC. Not all people get the Swift model and for them it may be unintuitive, but many do get it. I find it distressing that some developers just want to bang out code as fast as possible and any tool that tries to impose a bit of good software engineering in between that is seen as 'evil'. I've seen similar sentiments expressed about Rust i.e. 'I'd rather take my memory leaks and data races over the borrow checker'. That's fine, but please be aware that I'll try my best to not let you execute any code on my machine if that's how you approach the craft.