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by dlivingston 1273 days ago
Sorry... what? The more I read this, the more asinine it sounds.

Some definitions:

- The Obj-C runtime is just a shared library that Swift links to on compilation (/usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib). The performance to call into it is identical for Swift and Obj-C.

- "Sure you could get better performance by writing your apps directly in Obj-C..." Swift code is native code. Cost to access the runtime is identical.

- There is one "hop" to go from Swift to the Obj-C runtime.

- There are >2 "hops" to go through the JS Bridge. https://hackernoon.com/understanding-react-native-bridge-con...
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claytongulick 1273 days ago
> the more asinine it sounds.

HN is better without personal attacks and insults.

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zapzupnz 1272 days ago
The comment was against the argument being made, not the user. Nothing personal about it.
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claytongulick 1272 days ago
That's an interesting take that I don't agree with.

It could be extended to pretty much anything: "I'm insulting your clothes, not you".

Calling something that a person says, or writes "asinine" is inflammatory. If I were to call your defense of it "naive, brain dead and utterly absurd" are you sure you wouldn't interpret that as a personal attack?

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zapzupnz 1272 days ago
> Calling something that a person *says or writes* "asinine" is inflammatory

Yes, inflammatory. But personal, no.

> If I were to call your defense of it "naive, brain dead and utterly absurd" are you sure you wouldn't interpret that as a personal attack?

Correct, because it's not personal. That would be attacking the quality of the argument, not me, although it would certainly be inflammatory. I certainly wouldn't take it well — but for a totally different reason than you originally specified.

"Personal" and "inflammatory" are two different things.

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