> Do people enjoy rewriting code?
No, of course not. The way I see it, Swift is scared to go the "Java" route where backwards compatibility is valued above all else, leaving the language an antiquated mess.
No, of course not. The way I see it, Swift is scared to go the "Java" route where backwards compatibility is valued above all else, leaving the language an antiquated mess.
I remember all the time the iOs developer spent with every iOs release. He didn't look any happy
Swift 3 was notorious for having migrator issues, largely due to the fact that it was a pretty radical change and a huge number of method names were changed.
Personally, on our hybrid app, the migrator did about 1/3rd of the work, and I did the rest, without any other engineers' involvement. Overall it took maybe 3 days to migrate the whole app.
Seems like things are not that bad now. But stills scares me that with every new version you lose a developer for some days (or weeks).