There are millions (billions?) of lines of Objective-C code that will need need to be maintained - not least in Apple's own code so it won't be obsolete any time yet. However, it's clear that any new Apps from Apple (and I expect, OS X and iOS) will be written in Swift so the objective-C train is clearly at the station waiting to leave ...
As for the excitement, I for one certainly was and, well, it IS a developer's conference! ;-) Stephen On 3 Jun 2014, at 16:47, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 Jun 2014, at 15:38, [email protected] wrote: > >> I've downloaded Xcode 6 to start learning Swift and get my apps ready for >> iOS8. So much to do, so little time ... > > I'm pretty sure they said it would not make old languages obsolete? But does > it still mean some old code will be deprecated? It was funny watching them go > 'uh, meh' about things that most consumers wil lwant but get really excited > when stuff came on that most people don't have a clue about;) "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style" ~ Maya Angelou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
