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AFAIK most people have been moving away from it in favor of Rust and Zig. A lot of friends at FAANGs are still working in ObjC codebases, and probably gonna sk
by aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago
AFAIK most people have been moving away from it in favor of Rust and Zig.
A lot of friends at FAANGs are still working in ObjC codebases, and probably gonna skip the whole Swift story by jumping straight to Rust when the time comes.
But of course this could be just in my bubble...
- tambourine_man 4y agoIf you mean anything other than iOS apps, sure. But for this latter case, there’s no real alternative. An iOS app in Zig or Rust is in an extremely small niche.
- liuliu 4y agoWould be interesting to know the "moving away from Swift to Rust / Zig" story. My impression is that Swift not even in consideration in most projects with Rust / Zig.
- hot_gril 4y agoI can see some performance-sensitive projects being done in Swift, Rust, or Golang. Funny, the place I don't like using Swift is its main use case, high-level iPhone apps. It's overkill. The complex Stackoverflow answers for "how to do (simple thing like getting a substring) in Swift" say so.
- jarjoura 4y agoRust is taking over the tools space for sure, replacing important tools that need to run often and speed is king, replacing tools written in python and perl. Rust is also making its way into new core cross-platform libraries that need speed, instead of C++, however, no one is going to rewrite C++ libraries. No UI or product team is going to use Rust over Swift (or Kotlin) or whatever your stack currently depends on.