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At some point after the compiler got fixed, ARC was added, and the GC was deprecated, in 2012, is the point in time when Cocoa development felt solid (to me).
by iainmerrick 3y ago
At some point after the compiler got fixed, ARC was added, and the GC was deprecated, in 2012, is the point in time when Cocoa development felt solid (to me).
Seconded -- Obj-C was really nice to work with at that time.
I do like a lot of the new stuff in Swift, but in many ways it’s a return to the bad old days in terms of the overall dev experience.
- kitsunesoba 3y ago> I do like a lot of the new stuff in Swift, but in many ways it’s a return to the bad old days in terms of the overall dev experience. It depends on the angle you’re coming from IMO. For me Swift has been a major improvement overall for a couple reasons: it has a ton of quality of life features that can only be had in Objective-C with a laundry list of CocoaPods, and its type system allows me to do fairly major refactors on a regular basis that I wouldn’t dream of trying with Obj-C. Not having to maintain header files is also a bigger deal than I thought it’d be…
- iainmerrick 3y agoYeah, it would be very hard to go back to a more primitive type system. On balance I prefer Swift.