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by valuearb 3151 days ago
C++ and Objective C are like walking around with loaded shotguns aimed at your feet. It’s not a question of if you’ll blow your toes off but when.

I’ve written my highest quality apps in Swift. They virtually never crash. And updating my code once a year has been manageable, if not trivial most times.

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C++ maybe, but not Objective-C.

I've written plenty of high quality apps in Objective-C. They virtually never crash. And I never have to update my code because the language changed.

Stick with Objective-C and abandon Swift.

I spent 20 years in the Objective C world, and wrote my iOS apps in Objective C for nearly 5 years. If your apps virtually never crash you are an outlier, and you are working far too hard at it.

Swift's strong typing and optionals make it easy, fast and natural to write safe code, stuff I used to use masses of libraries to help me do in Objective C.