Martin Pilkington
Regarding my tweets yesterday about Swift not being dynamic, as long as Obj-C sticks around I don't see that being an issue
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@pilky Most of my apps have a classFromString, or a class_addMethod, or a resolveInstanceMethod. It’s a style I like.
Amy Worrall
@amyruthworrall And is there something that would prevent those particular parts of your app being written in Obj-C?
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@pilky No, but then I may as well not bother with Swift. - View other replies
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@amyruthworrall Why? Swift offers functionality that Obj-C doesn't. Some patterns are more elegant in Obj-C, some in Swift -
@pilky Because I can’t always predict in advance when I’ll want to solve a problem with runtime.h. - View other replies
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@amyruthworrall When I encounter problems like that I'm usually re-writing a lot of code anyway to use dynamic stuff
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@pilky@amyruthworrall If you're trying to do dynamic stuff with other people's compiled code, it's easier if they didn't use Swift. -
@mjtsai@amyruthworrall True, but technically you should only be doing that for either debugging or as an absolute last resort - View other replies
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@pilky@amyruthworrall Yes, but practically speaking frameworks have bugs, and apps are missing features that users want. Dynamism can help.
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Michael Tsai
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