Re:Will Carbon Replace C++?
by MBCook on Monday February 27, 2023 @10:37PM
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> Swift didn't replace Objective C
Give it time. Unlike the other examples one company (Apple) has full control here. There is basically zero demand for Objective-C outside of development for Apple platforms.
Apple is already making Swift only features and APIs and is deprecating older things. Obj-C is arguably legacy already, but still works fine.
I’ll bet plenty of money there will find a day when Apple says “This is it, next release it’s out of the toolchain”.
Existing developers often have Obj-C code (I do), but the biggest user is Apple. So they can’t kill it tomorrow. But its days are numbered.
No one is in that kind of position with C/C++/JS/Java.
Give it time. Unlike the other examples one company (Apple) has full control here. There is basically zero demand for Objective-C outside of development for Apple platforms.
Apple is already making Swift only features and APIs and is deprecating older things. Obj-C is arguably legacy already, but still works fine.
I’ll bet plenty of money there will find a day when Apple says “This is it, next release it’s out of the toolchain”.
Existing developers often have Obj-C code (I do), but the biggest user is Apple. So they can’t kill it tomorrow. But its days are numbered.
No one is in that kind of position with C/C++/JS/Java.