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iOS Swift Basics (retired) Variables and Constants What is Swift?

Posted by Ankita Mittra
Ankita Mittra
Courses Plus Student 32 Points

Do we need to learn objective C too to become an IOS developer

Comparison between swift and objective C .

Ankita Mittra
Ankita Mittra
Courses Plus Student 32 Points

Thank you Mr. William. Fully satisfied with your answer!

2 Answers

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

If you're writing a new iOS app from scratch solo, you can do it using Swift only, there won't be much of issue not knowing Objective-C.

However, being an iOS programmers, there're several disadvantage for not knowing Objective-C:

  • most of the existing iOS 3rd party libraries, testing frameworks are written in Objective-C.
  • inability to collaborate with other iOS developers on a legacy iOS codebase written in Objective-C, which accounts for over 90% of the apps currently on the AppStore.
  • Today, very very few companies are willing to hire iOS developers who have no experience with Objective-C.

Objective-C will continue to denominate the world of iOS development for at least several more years; Swift is cool, is new, it's bleeding-edge, many companies are holding off the move to migrate to Swift due to how new the language is, not to mention how much work and effort it takes to migrate large Objective-C codebase to Swift.

Nisarg Rajvi
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Nisarg Rajvi
Courses Plus Student 733 Points
Nisarg Rajvi
Nisarg Rajvi
Courses Plus Student 733 Points

both are different languages! but yeah it requires basic knowledge! swift is totally different. its like learning new language! but if you would have basic knowledge it would be much easier for you!