Regards (From mobile) > On Jul 12, 2016, at 6:22 AM, Josh Parmenter via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
It opens some interesting lines of thinking... Will google eventually become "the future of swift"? I would not be entirely surprised considering the man-power they have compared to apple, what they already did in the past in similar situations. > > 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 _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
