> 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

> 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…