Re:Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?
by cableshaft on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:01AM
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You still like Obj-C more than Swift? I vastly prefer Swift to Obj-C, and I used to code in Obj-C professionally.
Re:Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?
by pavlov on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:12AM
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I (have to) write C++ professionally. With that constraint, it's easier for me to work in Obj-C because its runtime is so thin and it's generally obvious how it interoperates with C/C++.
Re:Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?
by beska on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:47AM
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I'll take Obj-C over Swift any day. With Swift I feel like I have one arm tied behind my back and I'm constantly wrestling with it in order to do what I want.
Re:Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?
by grahamlee on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:05AM
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Like the person you replied to, I vastly prefer ObjC, I find the compiler pedantry in Swift to be annoying and to slow me down. ObjC is very fast to write and to iterate on, particularly in my style where everything that's an object gets typed as `id` so trying new ideas just means swapping out implementations.
No client/server division to worry about, all of the desktop environment's capabilities developed over decades, insane CPU and GPU power and memory bandwidth (now on Apple's industry-leading ARM chips). Obj-C gives seamless access to both C/C++ APIs and the best desktop GUI with incredibly powerful features like the Cocoa text system.