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Ask HN: Objective C or Swift for first iOS app

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Heyo,

I plan to start building an IOS app. I have never used Objective C or Swift before. What is best to start on? Objective C or Swift?

Cheers

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joeblau
If you start in Swift, at some point you're going to need to understand Objective-C whether you're using Cocoapods or reading questions on Stack Overflow.

Objective-C is a lot more verbose and Swift is a lot friendlier from a programming standpoint but Obj-C isn't going anywhere anytime soon so if you choose Swift, plan to get used to reading Obj-C.

That being said, I would choose Swift.