> On Oct 14, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Carl Hoefs via Cocoa-dev > <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > > I see Computer Science students here falling into two groups. The group that > likes Swift generally likes scripting languages, Python, and the like.
Whoa, I completely disagree. Objective-C is much, much closer to scripting languages than Swift, with all of its dynamic features: * It has the 'id' type that represents any type of object * you can send a message to an arbitrary object whether or not its class declares it * you can intercept unhandled messages and do arbitrary things to handle them * you can add, remove or override methods at runtime * you can even create classes at runtime Swift is very strongly-typed and less dynamic: it's very strict and nit-picky about types, protocol conformance, etc. Much more like C++. Are you lumping Swift in with scripting languages simply because its method-call syntax is more normal looking? Or because compiler type inference sometimes allows you to omit variable types? > (There is a third group that likes both languages, but it is very small.) Most experienced iOS/Mac developers I know like both. —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
