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viktorcode 22 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: SwiftUI After 7 Years

> Then came Swift and I loved it, but then it took literal years to catch up with everything you could do in Objective-C with the Apple APIs.

I don't get this part. You can literally rewrite Obj-C code verbatim in Swift and it will work. The only missing part is C macros.

Razengan 21 days ago [–]

> You can literally rewrite Obj-C code verbatim in Swift and it will work.

It took a while to get there. They didn't have native Swift APIs for some things like URIs etc until later.

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