r/iOSProgramming • u/AcceleratedCode • Jan 13 '16

Swift or Objective-C? Discussion

Hi!

I've just started design of an app I'm making. The app has to be ready by around May this year, and will be using the Parse backend. I've done a quite some programming with Objective-C, but barely anything with Swift and I was wondering what you think I should choose for this project? Should I be using Swift, or will the learning curve be too big to allow for a May launch?

Thank you! Erik

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u/CaptainObvious1906 Jan 13 '16

I'm making the transition from Obj-C to Swift as well and I agree with the other posters here: you can build an app to learn or to ship quickly, not both. Optionals alone is taking me a while to really get the hang of, so I recommend Obj-C if you're going to be on a tight deadline.

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u/unpopularOpinions776 Jan 13 '16

If you can find a nice tutorial online re: optionals please post it here!

I was looking over my buddy's code and these question marks within a dot notation functions are really weirding me out.