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I think people, or at least people like me, want languages that don't suck to develop in. Write once is great, but being able to spit some code out without real
by gleenn 12y ago
I think people, or at least people like me, want languages that don't suck to develop in. Write once is great, but being able to spit some code out without really old language cruft getting in the way would be nice too. Objective-C was written forever ago. I don't want to type 30 character method names and write 6 lines of code to do simple "map" operations. Swift and Dart make these things better. They are hopefully fast enough to also not make the end product not suck too. I've worked at at least a handful of companies doing both iOS and Android and they've all done multiple versions of the same app; these write-once libraries and projects just don't do it well enough IMHO.
- acron0 12y agoYou're totally correct and I certainly don't disagree that Swift is an improvement to Obj-C. I just wish some one [who counts, i.e. not Microsoft, apparently] would just attempt to pick up the 'write once' torch.
- mpweiher 12y agoThe long method names really have nothing to do with Objective-C, and all with Apple's naming conventions...which are the same with Swift.
- weavie 12y agoPlus intellisense means its a solved problem.
- logicchains 12y agoThey're partly related to Objective-C not having namespaces (as far as I'm aware).