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iOS

Posted by Evan Melucci
Evan Melucci
306 Points

I had just started ios development a few days ago. Should I continue with swift 2.0 or wait for swift 3.0?

I heard that Apple announced swift 3.0 and also iOS 10. Should I wait for those to settle in or should I continue with swift 2.0?

Art Hayes
Art Hayes
7,251 Points

In my opinion you shouldn't wait until Swift 3, just continue with Swift 2. 3.0 isn't a complete rewrite, and Xcode is proactive at letting you know what's going to be changing in 3.0 and at 'some point in the future.'

That said, I'm still upset that 3.0 is eliminating the ++ operator in favor of +=

¯_(ツ)_/¯

rh12
rh12
4,407 Points

I agree with other posters here. You can also find out more above the changes here: (https://swift.org/migration-guide/)

Xcode 8 will also be shipping with a Swift migration tool.

1 Answer

Reed Carson
Reed Carson
8,306 Points

Go ahead and start with Swift 2.0. The fundamentals wont be changing and Swift 3.0 still has a few months on it. By then you should be able to have a good grasp of swift, and it wont be too hard to integrate whatever has changed with 3.0