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A comment on Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12 by MaxBarraclough on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:20AM (#18100478)
Sure, if it's a good old whole-program-crash either way, that means they're equivalent severity. It's not my intention to softball Swift with some nebulous idea of what counts as a proper 'fundamental' bug.

In defence of Swift, it could still be that they spent less time bug-hunting than when they were developing in Objective-C, to reach the same, or inferior, level of program correctness.

Also, we're comparing a new product to a mature one. Were the original Objective-C programs stable in their first release?

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Re:Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12 by LeoNatan25 on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:00PM (#18101435)
My point isn’t to say Swift is bad. I personally don’t like it, but that isn’t the point. In my original comment, I wanted to say that rewriting software just because of a new language is probably a bad idea.

Apple could have continued using the existing software, rather than just throw away stable code for the sake of new devs to use a new language.

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Re:Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12 by MaxBarraclough on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:30PM (#18101960)
Agree completely - I'm not convinced that Swift is so much better than Objective-C that it makes sense to throw out mature production code.

Mandatory link to Spolsky's blog post on exactly this:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

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