My reply didn’t go to the list… my apologies… On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:19 PM, Ford Prefect <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
People say nearly every WWDC code example was Swift. That says to newcomers "learn Swift, not Obj C". Swift is being ported on other platforms but Objective C is not. Google has talked about switching to it, which may be unrelated but likely not since the Valley is a small place. More people using Swift is great. But C is still used. C++ is used. Why does Obj-C need to go away for Swift to gain a larger dev base? If Google starts to use Swift, do you see Java going away? Obj-C has been here for awhile. Certainly before iOS and even before OS X. I don’t see it going away any time soon, even in those eco-systems. Best, Josh Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 at 8:03 PM From: "Josh Parmenter" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "Ford Prefect" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [swift-evolution] adding Obj-C syntax to Swift? Where is this wall with writing you speak of? My feeling is, if you want Obj-C syntax, why not use Obj-C? I actually don't get the feeling that access to it as a development language is really going away. Best Josh Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2016, at 20:00, Ford Prefect via swift-evolution <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Perhaps one of the most disliked aspects of Swift is the Rust-like syntax, which requires that each coder resign himself to grin-and-bear-it in order to obtain the benefits of Swift. Since "the writing is on the wall" that Objective C is in its last days at least as far as app writers go (maybe within Apple it will endure), is there any chance of sweetening the pill a bit by giving us back the more readable syntax of Objective C, in particular the method call syntax? It just made more sense to format a method call like Smalltalk. _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
