Michael Tsai
A Eulogy for Objective-C: http://mjtsai.com/blog/2015/08/18/a-eulogy-for-objective-c/ … #mjtsaiblog
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@landonfuller LINQ looks great. Lots of issues with Core Data, but it does have traction.
Landon Fuller
@mjtsai CoreData's traction seems to be largely a matter of circumstance; simply impossible to implement LINQ in ObjC …but now there's Swift
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@landonfuller Could LINQ work well in Xcode without special support (just Swift auto-complete)? -
@mjtsai@landonfuller LINQ would require the ability to turn a closure into its AST representation, which AFAIK isn't possible now. -
@CastIrony@mjtsai You need (real) macros for the ideal implementation, but if you're OK with manual relation definitions, doable.
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@landonfuller Right. Do you see Apple making Swift-only APIs any time soon? Or could a third-party LINQ gain traction? -
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@landonfuller@mjtsai IMO Core Data has traction simply because it's provided by Apple, and there are a lot of programmers who just Obey. - View other replies
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@mikeash@landonfuller Mainly because of Apple, but it was a gaping hole that no one else had filled. And now there’s an ecosystem.
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@landonfuller@mjtsai LINQ can be done with a preprocessor, they could have done this with ObjC but went the ugly NSPredicate route. -
@cjwl@landonfuller I thought half the fun with LINQ is that it knows the type of everything. Just not a good match for Objective-C.
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