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This is not even remotely similar to that situation. Obj-C is far more important & integrated than I think you realize.
by weegee101 12y ago
This is not even remotely similar to that situation. Obj-C is far more important & integrated than I think you realize.
- pjmlp 12y agoI know Objective-C since 1999, when I had to port some software from NeXT to Windows, so I do know a few things about it. From my point of view, many will jump to Swift if given the chance.
- weegee101 12y agoYes, and I think people should head to Swift if it fits their needs. That is very different from Objective-C losing support however. Objective-C is not going away.
- gress 12y agoYou are misunderstanding - this isn't about which is better. Almost all new application code will be written in Swif, but swift doesn't bridge between C and the Swift/obj-c runtime, so Objective-C will continue to be required for writing the glue layer.
- pjmlp 12y agoYes it does. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/BuildingCocoaApps/InteractingWithCAPIs.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014216-CH8-XID_13 https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta... Additionally, this is just version 1.0. So nothing rules out that if Apple sees the language being widely adopted, other improvements in the FFI area aren't made.
- gress 12y agoI stand corrected, and your argument holds, however there is a great deal of objective-c code out there, so it will take a long time to go away.