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But Apple has had the right idea- they release a new version of their desktop and mobile OSes about once a year. I would surmise that their OS reliability and s

But Apple has had the right idea- they release a new version of their desktop and mobile OSes about once a year. I would surmise that their OS reliability and stability issues have more to do with the switch from Objective-C to Swift than anything else. Heck they change Swift dramatically each year (or they did in the first few years). Swift 2 was RADICALLY different from Swift 1. Swift 3 was radically different from Swift 2...

mjmsmith 4y ago
There haven't been radical changes like that since Swift 3. And it's much easier to write reliable code in Swift than Objective-C.
lapcat 4y ago
> But Apple has had the right idea- they release a new version of their desktop and mobile OSes about once a year. That's not the right idea. Mac OS X 10.3 through 10.7 all took well over a year of development. Yearly major releases is too fast. https://robservatory.com/a-full-history-of-macos-os-x-release-dates-and-rates/ https://robservatory.com/a-full-history-of-macos-os-x-releas... > I would surmise that their OS reliability and stability issues have more to do with the switch from Objective-C to Swift than anything else. There's no evidence of this. Apple itself was one of the slowest adopters of Swift, because it needed ABI stability to put Swift in the OS. https://blog.timac.org/2022/1005-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-ios16/ https://blog.timac.org/2022/1005-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-...