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		sehr on Jan 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Swift or Objective-C for new iOS app in 20... Maybe Obj C if your machine is a bit old or underpowered. SourceKitService is a hungry, hungry little beast. The tooling in general around swift still feels a bit "in progress" imo but it's defo the future, and for me, the present.

senc01a on Jan 25, 2017 [–]

I can't agree with this rationale. Your machine will change over the years, while decisions as important as the programming language to choose will remain over time.

sehr on Jan 25, 2017 | [–]

I don't completely agree with it either, hence the italicized maybe

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