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Ask HN: Has Apple abandoned Objective-C?

9 points by rubicon33 ↗ HN
More and more it seems like Apple's documentation only supports Objective C.

For example:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uinavigationcontroller/customizing_your_app_s_navigation_bar

As you can see here, switching to Objective-C does absolutely nothing. Is this the writing on the wall that they are going to completely give up on Objective-C?

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0x0007de
what do you think why they create Swift?
stop50
I thought they are ongoing with rewriting macos with swift
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simplotek
That's a good question. Why did they really create Swift? Is Swift actually not broken anymore? Hasn't apple just announce a major rewrites of it's Foundation framework?
birdymcbird
wrote objective c lot in early 2010s. loved the language.

from just reading articles and code sample, swift much faster and easier to write. i would still like to write objective c but feel swift easier to teach to new programmer.

if goal to have anyone become programmer and anyone can write iOS app submit to apple store then swift less intimidating than objective c. feel like right choice.

ja27
Apple's abandoned documentation more than Objective-C
simplotek
Understated comment.

I tried picking up Objective-C a few years ago, but the atrocious docs needlessly made the whole experience unbearable and too much of a battle to make the experience worth it.

trieste92
Pretty sure it's still used for interop with C and lower level stuff but don't quote me