This question was asked a little over a year ago on HN and I noticed many answers said something along the lines of "Give swift another year". What do you think now?
Ask HN: Swift or Objective-C for new iOS app in 2017?
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#2Objective-C is a dead end. Swift.
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#3Swift and its not even close.
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#4Maybe Obj C if your machine is a bit old or underpowered. SourceKitService is a hungry, hungry little beast.
The tooling in general around swift still feels a bit "in progress" imo but it's defo the future, and for me, the present.
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#5React Native
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#6Swift
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#7Definitely Swift.
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#8React Native
Hidden option number 3!
Doing some playing with react native at the moment and can say it's refreshing (although Swift is nice to use, especially compared to the bloat that is Java for Android)
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#10100% swift.