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Good for Apple. In my opinion they are laying the groundwork for reducing technical debt. Objective-C had a good run. I haven’t used Objective-C in over 10 yea
by mark_l_watson 4y ago
Good for Apple. In my opinion they are laying the groundwork for reducing technical debt.
Objective-C had a good run. I haven’t used Objective-C in over 10 years but I have used Swift about 10% of the time in the last four years. Swift is a nicely designed language and I could see it supporting Apple’s business for many years.
Will Swift ever be a primary language on Linux? I would say yes, except now that Rust is used the advantages of also mixing in Swift are diminished.
- cute_boi 4y agoI would recommend people always use language like Rust or C++ instead of swift, so that it is easy to make cross-platform apps. The UI can be made using a native toolkit like swift, gtk, winapi, etc... however, the core engine app should be written in a language like Rust.
- smoldesu 4y agoSwift just isn't mature enough to know for sure, at least on Linux and Windows. With proper optimization, it might make a case for itself on Linux. That being said, it's going nowhere fast without official support from Apple.
- WFHRenaissance 4y agoI bet you would. What color are your programming socks?