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by tarentel 856 days ago
I work on an app that pre-dates Swift by a year. At this point I'd say about 60-70% of the app is in Swift but there's still large chunks of core functionality that's obj-c. It's mostly stable though and we don't work in that part of the codebase very regularly. It's been a few years since we made any noteworthy modifications to it.

My previous job was all Obj-C at a fairly large and well known company. When I left in 2019 they were beginning to experiment with adding Swift.

I started coding iOS apps around version 5 which was right before the addition of ARC. I've grown to miss the simplicity of Obj-C and have a love/hate relationship with Swift but likely in a few years there won't be much of it left except at big companies who have very old apps.