Consider: If you were tasked to choose a language for a project based only on a "features list", you'd still have no assurances the language would be appropriate for the project or that you would be able to accomplish the project in a timely manner. Features do not equate to usability or productivity. Its arbitrary syntax betrays Swift as being more of a conglomeration of "list of ingredients" than a well-architected language suited to expressing high-level problems in code.
> On Jun 15, 2015, at 5:30 AM, Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I may have misinterpreted the WWDC ’14 announcement of Swift. Somehow I got > the impression Swift was supposed to make Mac programming easier and more > fun. What I found was that with Cocoa, it makes easy stuff harder without > making the hard stuff the slightest bit easier. (In the case of string > manipulation, it makes the easy stuff wayyyy harder.) > > I am adopting Swift anyway because it cuts my number of source files in half. > Having fewer places for bugs to crop up is more important to me than a > language’s likeability. I believe I would be happier with an ObjC-3 that > modernized the language a bit and did away with header files, but that’s not > what we’re ever going to get—so Swift it is. > > -- > > Charles > > > On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 20:51, Maxthon Chan wrote: > >> News outlets says that Objective-C is quickly falling out of people’s >> attention and developers are turning away from it to Swift and C++. So what >> language will you use to code various parts of your new project? >> Objective-C? Swift 2? C++? Or the good old plain C? >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/newslists%40autonomy.caltech.edu > > This email sent to newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
