Ask HN: Is Swift ready for production yet? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is Swift ready for production yet?

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Post by yesmotherfucker » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 2:52 AM UTC

Alphasite_ wrote: post #34

Osmium wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since that's been written, CocoaPods has added Swift support. As of a few weeks ago it's currently available in beta (gem install cocoapods --pre). To the OP, CocoaPods is probably the most widely-used package manager, but there's also Carthage too, which is decentralised: https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage It'd be nice if Apple had an official package manager but they seem to want to stay out of it (see Homebrew/M…

Want macports semi developed by apple staff?

Yes, at least initially. I don't if any Apple employees still contribute to MacPorts, though. Apple does still provide hosting and infrastructure to the project, for what it's worth.

Re: Ask HN: Is Swift ready for production yet?

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Post by aceperry » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 4:30 AM UTC

ary wrote: post #24

In your case, no. It sounds like you're designing, not building, the app. Letting your contractors use the technology they are most familiar with and that has the most mature tooling (for the platform) is in your best interest. Apple will be supporting Objective-C for a long time to come so you lose nothing from sticking with what works. I say this as someone who has written many thousands of lines of Swift over the…

The xcode problems sounds almost like Google's change to Android Studio from eclipse. Except, Android Studio was never as bad, and it got better very quickly. In fact, Andoid Studio is probably at least as good as eclipse for Android development.

Re: Ask HN: Is Swift ready for production yet?

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Post by makeramen » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 7:41 AM UTC

aceperry wrote: post #42

ary wrote: post #24

In your case, no. It sounds like you're designing, not building, the app. Letting your contractors use the technology they are most familiar with and that has the most mature tooling (for the platform) is in your best interest. Apple will be supporting Objective-C for a long time to come so you lose nothing from sticking with what works. I say this as someone who has written many thousands of lines of Swift over the…

The xcode problems sounds almost like Google's change to Android Studio from eclipse. Except, Android Studio was never as bad, and it got better very quickly. In fact, Andoid Studio is probably at least as good as eclipse for Android development.

Android Studio is much better than Eclipse already, and it was built on the already mature Intellij IDE.

Re: Ask HN: Is Swift ready for production yet?

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Post by tylerc230 » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 11:10 PM UTC

One pro of using Swift which I haven't seen mentioned here is that you will be able to attract more developers to your project if you write it in Swift. Everyone wants to work on the new hotness. This is a long term value and could outweigh any short term shortcomings of the tools.