Ask HN: Swift or Objective-C? • Hacker News Board

seivan wrote: post #7

bribri wrote: post #3

Swift is a better language in almost every way but you should still know Objective-C if you want to work professionally.

Not when working with C++ libs as of today. Even working with C is a bit of a pain. Apart from that, yeah go full Swift.

To clarify, in this case you can (should?) use Objective-C++ wrappers to create an interface for Swift.

Re: Ask HN: Swift or Objective-C?

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Post by purplerabbit » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #23

thomasmeagher wrote: post #21

Swift is the future, Objective-C is the past.

But Objective-C is also the current, as most big codebases are still in it.

rekt

Re: Ask HN: Swift or Objective-C?

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Post by NSHippie » Fri, Jan 15, 2016, 2:41 PM UTC

Q: What made most developers fear iOS Development? A: Objective-C. Then there were programmers who spent countless hours learning Objc, these objc programmers will always tell you to use objc and not Swift. Apple, introduced swift because it is the future. Learn swift, once you know swift and you are comfortable with iOS Frameworks you can easily transition to objc.

Re: Ask HN: Swift or Objective-C?

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Post by abatjarg » Fri, Jan 15, 2016, 4:00 PM UTC

I think it really depend on your level of knowledge. If you are just starting out then I would start with Swift as it is easier to learn and most new learning materials are in Swift. Once you get the hang of the API and Swift, you will eventually have to learn Obj-C.