Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Framework

Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by vbezhenar on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:11AM (#34351476)

My issue with Swift is that it changes faster than I can learn it. I'm not Apple developer, I just write some code for macOS or iOS sometimes, like one time a year. I learned Objective C few years ago and this knowledge is with me. learned Swift 1 but now it's different and it seems that I have to learn it again almost from the scratch.

For professional *OS development Swift probably makes sense. But if I occasionally need to write some code, Objective C for me is preferred. May be Swift is stabilized enough already...

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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram... by j-f1 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @07:31AM (#34352542)

There were a lot of changes made in the Swift 1–3 time frame as the team learned what it was like to write Swift at scale and developed a unique language style. That’s all done now, and Swift 5 code (released 2019) should continue to be compilable with few exceptions long into the future. It’s different enough from Swift 1 that it’s basically a different language though.

The biggest source-breaking change on the near-term horizon (which is still in progress) is compile-time enforcement of concurrency safety.

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