News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Chris Lattner on Swift. Parent comment

Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by alttab on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @12:27AM (#7844045)
To be fair, Objective C hasn't run billion dollar companies for decades yet either (in mass).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by threeseed on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @02:07AM (#7844249)
Objective-C up until the last couple years was powering the payments infrastructure for the Apple Online Store.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by alttab on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @02:47PM (#7847364)
Which isn't exposing Objective-C to a wide range of engineers in the industry to the point people and relate and swap horror stories about it.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by jeremyjh on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @01:02AM (#7844126)
Yes, that is my point but I didn't make it very well. If Objective C were routinely subjected to these sorts of projects, I think its over-all reputation would be a lot worse.
[ Parent | on HN ]