Rapidly iterating on many UI classes. A sigh of relief when it's an Obj-C file, a cringe when a Swift file: 5 sec vs. 2 min iteration time.
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why so slow for Swift?
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Its compiler is very slow and does not support incremental compilation.
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by incremental compilation, you mean .o etc files?
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I mean: I change one line in one file, and all files in the link unit recompile.
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yeah, I was just wondering if you were using the change-a-method-at-runtime objc stuff. Hadn't heard of anyone using that.
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Actually I was relating what had told me, but yeah, very bad.