Why Most iOS Developers Prefer Swift over Objective-C

iOS App Development

• The iOS app development sphere is a rapidly evolving one. Shifts in trends occur almost as frequently as the occurrence of app ideas.
• Developers are often attracted to iOS app development over another platform due to its capability to generate greater revenue.

• The consistency in quality and navigational flow across iOS applications allow businesses to provide stakeholders with a heightened user experience.

• Apple devices have also been known to provide certain advantages for enterprise applications.

• But there is a question that developers and businesses alike are confronting in iOS app development.

Objective-C: An Introduction

“Which is the best language for iOS app development, Objective-C or Swift?”

• To be able to answer this question we need to understand the basics of both these languages. Let’s begin with Objective-C.

• Objective-C is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language that lies at the heart of the Cocoa framework.

• It is built on the same principles as the standard ANSI C language, which is also an object-oriented programming language.

• But Objective-C grants certain benefits that other object-oriented programming languages, like ANSI C, do not.

Swift: Is There a Need for Something Better Than Objective-C

• With Objective-C offering such a comprehensive platform for developing iOS applications, the need for something better can easily be questioned.

• Swift was introduced by Apple as the next generation of iOS development programming languages in June 2014.

• The launch of a new programming language meant not just another option, but as Apple clearly put it, Swift was going to replace Objective-C as the preferred language of app development.

• But what gave Swift the upper hand on a head-to-head with an established language like Objective-C?