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You can also realistically learn Swift and then never have to write anything else again, until iOS stops being a career at least.
by xenihn 6y ago
You can also realistically learn Swift and then never have to write anything else again, until iOS stops being a career at least.
- usrnm 6y agoPeople used to think the same thing about Objective C
- Brajeshwar 6y agoYes, just as Flash/ActionScript. At a time, we almost believed Flash Player was everyone on the Internet.
- Kwantuum 6y agoIsn't ActionScript just a dialect of EcmaScript? I would guess transitioning from that to Javascript would be pretty easy.
- pjmlp 6y agoWithout the nice IDE experience though.
- FormFollowsFunc 6y agoThere was an IDE for ActionScript called FDT built on top of Eclipse.
- pjmlp 6y agoI meant that JavaScript/HTML/CSS has yet to offer anything similar to the Flash development experience.
- Brajeshwar 6y agoWell, the Flash IDE itself was a horrible compiler for those who write mostly ActionScript. We used to compile with few open source compilers. I have forgotten the names.
- pjmlp 6y agoIt still is, https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpxflash.html https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpxflash.html
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoSeems like it’s going to be many years before Objective-C is no longer viable, and there’s a lot of it to maintain (especially Apple’s). I think the only Swift-exclusive frameworks are SwiftUI, Combine, and WidgetKit.
- Grustaf 6y agoIt would be pretty crazy to learn only objective c today, unless you want to go after the legacy market specifically, like someone learning Cobol to get bank contracts. Maybe it suits some people but for most people it’s sad and frustrating to work with old messy systems in obsolete languages when there’s a shiny new one that’s objectively much better in almost every way.
- pjmlp 6y agoHere is a little secret, while Swift is the future of systems programming on Apple platforms, there is still plenty of stuff written in a mix of C++ and Objective-C. In which languages do you think Core Audio and Metal are written on?
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoTo the commenter's point though, Swift is the relatively easy part. UIKit throws you into the deep end right away, it descends from AppKit from native Mac app development and doesn't try to progressively disclose complexity like SwiftUI.
- darksaints 6y agoWhy would you take a bet like that with Apple trying their best to destroy the iOS market for developers?