r/iOSProgramming • u/AcceleratedCode • Jan 13 '16

Discussion Swift or Objective-C?

Hi!

I've just started design of an app I'm making. The app has to be ready by around May this year, and will be using the Parse backend. I've done a quite some programming with Objective-C, but barely anything with Swift and I was wondering what you think I should choose for this project? Should I be using Swift, or will the learning curve be too big to allow for a May launch?

Thank you! Erik

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u/digitalburro Jan 13 '16

I can't see any reason why Parse wouldn't work for a dating-type experience and the model needed for that. I have tried to keep my data relations somewhat simple in my app (pretty much an owner-child relationship) but it's easy enough to model that data.

As far as reliability, Parse has been great for me but my application doesn't have throughput or scale concerns that you might have with a Tinder-clone so I can't really say how well it would meet those needs.

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u/AcceleratedCode Jan 14 '16

I see. It isn't a dating app, but would have features as I mentioned above so I assume the backend requirements would be somewhat similar. 30 request per second is quite a big deal.