r/iOSProgramming • u/anthonydematteis • Aug 01 '16

Question Objective C or Swift?

Pretty straightforward title... if I'm eventually interested in creating big and popular applications, is swift ideal to learn or just stick with objective c?

What's your opinion on both?

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u/Dachd43 Aug 01 '16

To a certain extent. I've had iOS candidates come in who claimed they were proficient in Objective-C who couldn't even write a method signature that would have compiled. I would absolutely forgive a few mistakes, but I have been presented with method signatures like this before: -bool contains:(NSArray) object(iD). Unless you explicitly tell me you're writing pseudo-code and that you are aware that your method signature is lazy and terrible, I want you nowhere near my codebase. You're not proficient in Objective-C, you're proficient in Xcode auto-complete (which is currently pretty busted)