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As an iOS developer with several apps in the store and maintaining an enterprise app, I have no interest in Swift. The syntax seems like a step backwards; peopl
by xauronx 12y ago
As an iOS developer with several apps in the store and maintaining an enterprise app, I have no interest in Swift. The syntax seems like a step backwards; people complain about javascript constantly, and yet this is like a javascript mask on top of objective-c. Perhaps when it gains some popularity and people figure out what it's good for, and if it's sticking around, I'll learn it. For now I'll stick with objective-c, especially since it took like 3 years to become proficient with it.
- eyuelt 12y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but I don't know many people that complain about the syntax of JS. Usually the complaints are about the many poor design decisions (due, no doubt, to the fact that the language was designed in only 10 days). So I don't think there's anything wrong having a syntax that looks similar to JS. Also, though I haven't actually looked very much into Swift yet, from what I've seen, I disagree that Swift is just a syntactical mask on top of Obj-C. It looks to me to be following a similar approach to Rust and Go, in that it combines features of many different languages, object oriented and functional alike.