@rwenderlich Itâs unfortunate Iâve had my share of April Fools that day that I knew it just from the title ⊠But for a sec I was really happy. I like Objective-C a lot (for its verbosity, that I can practically not document my code and everyone would just be able to understand it easily just from function names and types).
@onceunpopularideas Itâs normal no big company would take you seriously, especially if you are in a team. There is a lot of work going on âaddingâ things to the codebase, and you canât afford to have to go back into the whole code and change everything on each minor version/update of Xcode. Especially if the code is done by hundreds of people in different countries.
If you are a freelancer working as consultant instead, itâs totally fine. As long as you offer to maintain the code for at least 1 year or so after release (clients wonât afford having a broken code just for upgrading their Xcode either).
Would be nice if this were true not only on RW but everywhere else. I regret that I spent so much money buying apple hw just to find out that they are in the game of making everything obsolete and forcing you to upgrade. If you upgrade, your hw becomes obsolete. If you donât, your software becomes obsolete. NICE! The program I wrote back in 2003 on Windows XP, still runs fine on Windows 10. Try THAT on a MacâŠ!
Started with iOS4, worked as team lead several years in projects for GameInsight (http://game-insight.com), pproduct.ru, actually CTO of Messaps (NY).
What part of Swift sucks the most?
Changing too often. I did a project in swift 1.0 and before releasing it swift 1.2 was released with a lot of changes which obliged us to re-download the previous xcode version.
I agree with almost everything from here
Do you agree facial hair should be limited to eyebrows?
Hahaha⊠It is a very strange tendence - hipsters
You got me, I almost jumped on the f*** Swift bandwagon. I gotta say, I was pretty convinced that this article was real. Glad to hear it was all a joke lol.
I am 21 years old now and I started programming in Objective-C when I was just 15 years old. Back then I developed games in Cocos2D with the help of your tutorials . Right now, Iâm a part of the Santander Internet Banking App Team as a Senior Programmer and during these years I learned so much and read about 8 books about Cocoa and Objective-C and more 8 books about programming in general. And I have a pretty cool depedency injection framework.
What part of Swift sucks the most? (Itâs OK if you canât narrow it down to just one)
Swift does not suck, itâs an impressive language. it is like apple listed every programmer complaint about a programming language and built this SAFE thing. But, I donât use it. I love how objective-c put together the power of a really dynamic languages with the features of a Big OO language. I can say that the part that suck most about swift (and objective-c as well) is storyboards rs. (no one said I couldnât say that).
Do you agree facial hair should be limited to eyebrows?
Learning objc before puberty might have affected the grow of my facial hair. So, yes.
Why did Apple do so horribly when designing the Swift programming language? And yes, the ++ operator is WONDERFUL. HONESTLYâŠobviously OBJ-C is still the best BY FAR. The main thing Apple needed to do was to remove EVERY âNSâ from every framework!!! WHEN WILL THAT HAPPEN?! Say YES to OBJ-C, say NO to the ridiculous Swift programming language and say YES to petitioning Apple until they remove EVERY âNSâ from EVERY OBJ-C framework!!!
At least Lattner is GONE! Thatâs a start. Good day to sell a Tesla car to somebody else before Lattner ruins that company.
PS: Today noticed that, if I define a function with the new "_ " at the start of the input names, then call the function with inputs namedâŠXcode throws an error. WHAT!!! That underscore should make typing the input names OPTIONALâŠyet another mistake by Apple. Seems thatâs par for the course these daysâŠhope they stop downgrading the software soon. Canât have another app go the route that disk utility went and expect the company to do well.
. Right now, Iâm a part of the Santander Internet Banking App Team as a Senior Programmer and during these years I learned so much and read about 8 books about Cocoa and Objective-C and more 8 books about programming in general. And I have a pretty cool depedency injection framework.