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Swift probably still won't be used in production for some time due to the editor (Xcode) being extremely buggy. Error messages aren't great and with each new re

• melling 11y ago
  People are already using Swift in production. In fact, they suffered through the slow compiles, etc of the older Xcodes. http://making.duolingo.com/real-world-swift http://making.duolingo.com/real-world-swift I wouldn't write any new code in Objective C. Swift is just a better language to work with. 12 months from now, you'll be much happier that you wrote 25k lines of Swift in 2015 instead of Objective C.
  • vor_ 11y ago
    I use Swift for small applications, but the language is clearly incomplete, and and its tools are not ready for large, complex projects. You can use it, but it's painful. Just today, I had to write dozens of lines of RawOptionSetType code to mimic a C bitmask.
    • kenrikm 11y ago
      I've been developing for iOS since 2008, so much this! Swift is just not ready, I constantly run into "WTF" moments when I find something that's standard in most languages "has not been implemented yet" in Swift.
      • melling 11y ago
        No examples? Swift is already much richer than Objective C.