Kevin Wojniak created THRIFT-4895:
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Summary: Revive Cocoa support and add tests
Key: THRIFT-4895
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4895
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Cocoa - Library, Test Suite
Reporter: Kevin Wojniak
I would like to see the Objective-C (Cocoa) support brought back. The
suggestion to use Swift is not valid for all use cases for a few reasons:
1. Objective-C is not deprecated and is not going away.
2. Swift has to be written with Objective-C in mind to be backwards compatible.
This severely limits the ability to use modern Swift. Plus, it requires
bringing in the Swift runtime (several MB). It is nice to use all modern Swift
features when using Swift and not have to be reminded of Objective-C backwards
compatibility.
3. Objective-C library can be used with Swift with no extra cost, but not the
other way around. Currently 0.12 already has good support by using modern
Objective-C enums and could be expanded for better Swift support, for example
adding nullability type annotations.
4. Swift cannot interact with C++, so if a project is mostly C++ that must
interact with Cocoa APIs it must use Objective-C.
I am working on adding tests for the Cocoa code from the 0.12 version. My work
in progress is here:
https://github.com/kainjow/thrift/commits/kwojniak/cocoa-tests-wip
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