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Re:Introducing Swift by mox1 on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:09PM (#7835967)
I recently translated one of my Apps from Android to iPhone.

I had 0 objective-C experience, but I made it work. It was a bit of a frustrating experience. Many times I found myself writing Objective-C boilerplate-ish code that I had 0 clue what it was doing, considering this is a hobby / for fun project I just wanted it working.

It's not easy to google the answer to, "Why did I just add this new keyword after this colon in this random .h file.."

I didn't want to spend the next month reading Objective-C for beginners, I know what a for loop is, I also know what constructors are. I just wanted to use the language.

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Re:Introducing Swift by ff10 on Monday June 02, 2014 @05:29PM (#7836549)
You may know what a constructor is, but maybe not know what a designated initializer does. ;-)
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Re:Introducing Swift by cesarbs on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:21PM (#7837139)
I felt the same when working on iOS. I felt I was writing way too much boilerplate code, while Android and Windows Phone just gave me a lot more "for free".
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Re:Introducing Swift by BHSPitMonkey on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:49PM (#7837893)
You've just described exactly what it feels like transitioning from iOS to Android development, too.
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