Objective c is the ugliest most esoteric programming language there is and it has no place in modern development.

Swift to the rescue!

@runfrodorun

Totally agree that Swift is the way forward now, however during my objective-c days, I really liked it. I found the method names very descriptive, the syntax didn't bother me. Never understood the hate (after ARC that is)

@practiseSafeHex Currently making my server on Ubuntu with Perfect Swift. It’s faster than node.js and a lot more normal(wtf javascript on backend).

Also here have some benchmarks: https://medium.com/@rymcol/....

@just-basic-user IBM has a whole crap load of server side swift stuff on Bluemix. Theres an online editor / compiler for testing, open whisk which is a server-less solution that lets you just run functions in the cloud, and then theres kitura which is a full backend solution similar to node.js or the likes

@practiseSafeHex IBM see a lot of potential. Currently swift on iOS is faster than c++ and hell lot more understandable.

On server it’s still little faster than java but soon will compete c++.

I have more experience in java but when I was deciding the faith of my server I thought “give the future a chance”.