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by pinnochio 139 days ago
I was excited and optimistic about transitioning to Swift in the Swift 3 days. By Swift 5 I was pining for Objective-C.

One of the arguments for switching to Swift was that it would be easier for new programmers. Now I think it's more of a barrier than Obj-C ever was.
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mpweiher 139 days ago
I don't pine. I use.

Although more and more I am shifting to Objective-Smalltalk: https://objective.st

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pinnochio 139 days ago
That's neat.

Unfortunately, in my place of work, going back to Obj-C isn't an option.

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ben_w 139 days ago
> I was excited and optimistic about transitioning to Swift in the Swift 3 days. By Swift 5 I was pining for Objective-C.

Swift 5 isn't that bad (even if result builders felt like a weird hack to make SwiftUI possible and I dislike SwiftUI massively) but around that point the language has increasingly made me think "why did this happen when Java already existed?"

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mpweiher 136 days ago
That was my thought from the beginning.
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