There’s a proposal to allow C++ and Swift to interact in the same way that objc and C++ interact, and if that were to eventually become part of swift then objc’

There’s a proposal to allow C++ and Swift to interact in the same way that objc and C++ interact, and if that were to eventually become part of swift then objc’s days are numbered. Right now, one of the most significant reasons to continue using objc is that you don’t have to wrap everything in a C API.