> > and made the calling syntax much more complicated. > How is this true? Swift is very straightforward, and similar to other languages Swift is objectively

> > and made the calling syntax much more complicated. > How is this true? Swift is very straightforward, and similar to other languages Swift is objectively one of the most complex languages out there[1]. Just recently, they adopted basically the entirety of Smalltalk syntax as an edge case of an edge case[2]. Just the rules for initialisers are more complex than many languages and still don't cover all the cases[3]. > Meanwhile Objective-C is slow, The only people who believe this are those who have never measured (and have uncritically accepted Apple propaganda on this topic)[4]. Objective-C is a language you can easily write very fast code in (languages by themselves aren't fast or slow)[5]. Objective-C code is almost invariably faster than Swift code, and often by quite a lot.[6] > unsafe by default, Also not true. The id subset is quite safe[7] (and pretty fast), as are primitives. The parts that make C dangerous, particularly strings and other raw pointer accesses are abstracted away behind safe NSString, NSArray, NSData and friends. > ugly syntax Keyword syntax is actually highly elegant (Smalltalk's fits on a postcard) and extremely functional. So functional that Swift just recently added pretty much all of it as an edge case of an edge case of its closure syntax. Oh, did I already mention that? > More than half of Apple's CVE/iOS vulnerabilities lately have been from parts of the OS that still use ObjC Citation needed. Also: way more than half of the OS is still written in Objective-C, so you'd expect that. [1] https://www.quora.com/Which-features-overcomplicate-Swift-What-should-be-removed/answer/Rob-Rix https://www.quora.com/Which-features-overcomplicate-Swift-Wh... [2] https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/06/the-curious-case-of-swift-adoption-of.html https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/06/the-curious-case-of-swif... [3] https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/04/swift-initialization-swiftui-and.html https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/04/swift-initialization-swi... [4] https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/09/no-virginia-swift-is-not-10x-faster.html https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/09/no-virginia-swift-is-not... [5] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321842847/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0321842847&linkCode=as2&tag=metaobject-20&linkId=4f7c355096938fece9d7c880e6916ce8 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321842847/ref=as_li_tl?ie... [6] https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/04/faster-json-support-for-iosmacos-part-8.html https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/04/faster-json-support-for-... [7] https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/05/the-spidy-subset-or-avoiding-copeland.html https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/05/the-spidy-subset-or-avoi...