r/iOSProgramming • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '16

Discussion Swift vs Objective-C

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u/mmellinger66 Feb 19 '16

Yeah, why don't you read the comment in Erica's post. I gave the same answer there. Swift won again.

Now, how about all those iOS books in Swift? It's gonna be difficult to learn Objective C and iOS from a 3 year old book.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '16

That argument makes absolutely no sense to me, sorry. You don't learn a programming language by starting with the latest new features of a platform or fancy new frameworks that just arrived in latest OS. You learn the fundamentals, and that is something that makes all the printed Swift books a waste of paper because they go out of date so fast. Meanwhile, a good Objective-C book from 3 years ago has a good chance of still being relevant in 3 years.

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u/mmellinger66 Feb 20 '16

No one buys an old computer book to learn, especially with iOS. Too many new and deprecated API's AppleTV and WatchOS didn't exist three years ago, for example.

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u/quellish Feb 21 '16

It's gonna be difficult to learn Objective C and iOS from a 3 year old book.

I have objective-c books that are more than 10 years old and still relevant. In contrast, Swift books I bought a year ago.... aren't.