Is it any good?
• Definitely an improvement on Obj-C
• Lots of modern ideas
• But type system could still get spruced up
• Lots of ideas around performance
• But inescapable ARC can hurt
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Still very early
• Tools are buggy
• Missing language features
• Libraries designed for Swift
• Might need more from 3rd parties?
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Nope
Can we ignore obj-c?
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• Can stop using square brackets
• But still have to know Objective-C concepts
• ARC, Object Model, Target/Action
• Plus need to get Swift ideas
• Functions/Generics/Static Dispatch/
Immutable data
Can we ignore obj-c?