The mention of iOS 16 having 66% of system binaries not using swift is very interesting. I'm actually curious as to the equivalent number on Android. How many system APKs currently don't use kotlin?
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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The number keeps shrinking as Swift adoption increases at Apple. I imagine one thing holding it back was lack of C++ interop which was introduced this year. There’s also the rewrite of Foundation into Swift that will allow a better Swift story on non-Apple platforms. I appreciated ObjC back in the day and didn’t jump straight into Swift when it launched. I was saddened that it wasn’t as flexible as ObjC. I eventually got over it and grew to like Swift more.
ObjC has always been a language that's interested me in the sense that it's very unique and it just seemed interesting. That being said I've never been involved in the apple ecosystem, not open enough for me so I got my mobile start on Android with Java...then realized I loved java, hated android development and never went back to mobile platform stuff LOL. I still haven't moved to kotlin and with modern Java as it is I don't currently plan to. Maybe I'll give it a try if I ever try android development again but for now I'm just a user on the mobile side.
[ LOVE ] I still miss working in it every day. I've mostly moved on to Scheme for myself, JS and sometimes Obj-C for clients.