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Ask HN: Is Objective-C Now Dead?

by tronium on 6/3/14, 4:17 AM with 6 comments

With the advent of Swift, will Apple quit developing Objective-C and faze it out all together over the next few years? Or will it be split off somehow and given further development?

  • by omarforgotpwd on 6/3/14, 6:04 AM

    The runtime is the the same, so there is no immediate need for it to die, but it will die slowly.

    Kids may not remember this but you used to be able to access the Cocoa frameworks with Java...

  • by chrisBob on 6/3/14, 11:41 AM

    I think it will take a while. Right now I can StackOverflow my entire project, and it will be a little while before I can do that with Swift.

    Seriously though, a lot of developers will try and keep it around as long as possible because of existing codebases. I bet that even includes developers at Apple.

  • by joshdance on 6/4/14, 2:26 PM

    No. Languages take a while to die. C is still around. There are millions of apps written in Obj-C. It will take a while for Swift to get to that level of popularity.