Ben Sandofsky
Even if Swift is rock solid, your company probably has more important things to do right now than rebuild infrastructure.
I'm bullish about Swift, but it's nuts to port a large, mission critical app to it, today.
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Swift is like a pill that makes you twice as strong, but it's undergone zero clinical trials.
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@sandofsky This is a pretty accurate analysis. Having been an early patient, I can report mixed outcomes and excitement about the future.
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@sandofsky Mission critical iPhone apps? - View other replies
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@schwa If missing a deadline by 3 months would destroy your company. -
@schwa Maybe a better description would be, "If my app misses a deadline by 3 months, I will be fired." -
@sandofsky Remember when a 3 month dev cycle was “quite short really…” -
@schwa Every night before I scream into a pillow. -
@sandofsky You’re not drinking enough. Obviously. -
@schwa Don't worry. Soon it'll be a daily cadence.
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@sandofsky I'm aware of two projects, one at a startup and one at a big big company, that were rewritten in ObjC after starting in Swift. - View other replies
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@timburks@sandofsky Swift is a good language. Cocoa is a good set of frameworks. They just don't quite match, for the time being.
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@sandofsky I've found this to be true for over a decade of WWDC announcements, but only Core Data has approached this level of riskiness. -
@sandofsky I don't understand the urge to port. Use it for new apps, but porting loses all the testing and fixes. Plenty of obj-c engineers! -
@sandofsky Port, yes, but writing new code in Swift is fine. -
@sandofsky It's nuts to port an app anyway. Just a way to spend time making new bugs. -
@sandofsky What are the chances there’s a team working on Xcode for iOS, in Swift, for iPad Pro? :)
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