For many startups and companies which are trying to create mobile app development will switch into the iOS interface. It depends on the complexity of app that they must hire in-house mobile app development team or go with the freelancers. But, one question always strikes in their mind which language is best Swift or Objective-C.
For those who don’t know that there are two technical parts to build iOS mobile apps no matter whether it is for the Watch, iPad, iPhone or TV. The management cycle of development is managed by the tool called X Code, this tool allows the developer to layout their code or text, it allows them to compile and run the code to build a mobile app.
For developing mobile applications, app developers use libraries that are provided by the community which were previously written in Objective-C but now in Swift. So most of the business owner is confused between Objective-C and Swift, which one is most effective to use to create efficient mobile applications.
Let’s discuss in brief:
Swift vs. Objective-C
Today before taking any technical decisions, you have to keep an eye on the present scenario i.e. what is stable and assured – don’t want to build an app that is not reliable for the future. For the better foundation, Swift would be best for the future, but when it was new to the world it was unstable, and developers avoid using it because of the lack of libraries and features.
In late 2015, when Swift was new to the world, some libraries were missing from it, therefore, developers love to use Objective-C. The main tools that are still not available on the market are SDKs. It’s a bit of library created by third parties to design a mobile app easily and efficiently. Let’s discuss the facts why Swift is best as compared to objective C.
1. Swift is easier
Swift is easier as compared to Objective-C because Swift isn’t built on C, it can unify all the keywords and remove the numerous symbols in front of every Objective-C type or object-related keyword.
2. Swift drops legacy conventions
In Swift, you don’t need to put semicolons to end lines or parenthesis at the end of the if/else statements. Another major change is that method calls do not roost inside each other resulting in bracket hell as the function and method call in Swift use the industry-standard comma-separated list of parameters within parentheses. Therefore, it is a simple and more expressive language with a simplified syntax and grammar.
3. Swift is easy to read
Swift coding is easier to read as compared to Objective-C because Objective-C is a veteran language with more clunky syntax. On the other hand, Swift code similar to natural English, so that anyone can read the code easily. Its readability makes it popular among existing programmers from JavaScript, C#, Python, Java, and C++ to adopt Swift into their tool chain—unlike the ugly duckling that was Objective-C.
4. Prominent memory management.
Memory management is very important in terms of mobile app development and “Memory leaks” can occur in object-oriented programming easily which is not good for any app, so it is good to use Swift as it contains Cocoa Touch APIs that support Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to handle memory management and save the time of users by releasing the programmers from focusing on memory management.
Summing Up
Most of the existing mobile apps are built with Objective C but now developers prefer to use Swift as it enables a new way to program with the help of efficient algorithms using inline data visualizations.
Ultimately, it is a more approachable full-featured programming language as compared to Objective C that allows mobile app developers to create something unique and efficient just Apple Watch.
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