Do you have plans to stop supporting Objective-C?
Generated on 8/5/2024
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Apple has not announced any plans to stop supporting Objective-C. However, they are heavily promoting Swift as the future of app development due to its safety, speed, and modern features. Swift is being used extensively across Apple's software stack, from apps and system services to frameworks and even firmware. Apple is committed to adopting Swift in their C code bases and is working with the open-source community to bring Swift to more platforms and domains.
For more details on Apple's commitment to Swift, you can refer to the Platforms State of the Union (28:21) session.
Platforms State of the Union 5-Minute Recap
Watch a quick recap of the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
What’s new in Swift
Join us for an update on Swift. We’ll briefly go through a history of Swift over the past decade, and show you how the community has grown through workgroups, expanded the package ecosystem, and increased platform support. We’ll introduce you to a new language mode that achieves data-race safety by default, and a language subset that lets you run Swift on highly constrained systems. We’ll also explore some language updates including noncopyable types, typed throws, and improved C++ interoperability.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.