What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly

Re:What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly by 3jckd on Saturday April 27, 2019 @05:22PM (#19767709)

My first thought once I saw this was "flutter". It's really getting a lot of market share in mobile dev and all you need to write is Dart, for better or worse. Also, whenever you need to do iOS specific duct-tape-plumbing, it seems that Obj-C is still more capable than Swift because of the accumulated legacy.

However, take it as an educated guess rather than a fact since I have never been a mobile dev apart from hobby apps.

EDIT: typos.

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Re:What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly by kitsunesoba on Saturday April 27, 2019 @10:27PM (#19768907)

As an iOS dev I’m not thrilled with Flutter because it’s tied to a niche language and like most cross platform toolkits, it throws platform conventions out the window. Apps built with it sit firmly in the uncanny valley, feeling somewhat smooth but still “wrong” due to dozens of small cues being wrong or slightly off somehow.

And yeah, Objective-C is still the duct tape language of choice because it interacts well with C++. Swift handles plain C well but has no interior with C++ at all.

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Re:What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly by seanalltogether on Saturday April 27, 2019 @05:32PM (#19767761)

I've recently been stuck with a react native project and I was surprised to learn that objective-c is still the language of choice for interop.

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Re:What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly by dep_b on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:08PM (#19769082)

Well until the next version of Swift it’ll add 10mb of runtime to your app, not worth it for 100 lines of code

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Re:What's Going Down at the Tiobe Index? Swift, Surprisingly by saagarjha on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:59PM (#19769262)

The current version of Swift, actually. Swift 5 has already been released.

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