{"id":10101,"date":"2014-11-21T19:51:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T00:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10101"},"modified":"2014-11-21T19:51:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T00:51:24","slug":"swift-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/21\/swift-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsy.github.io\/blog\/2014\/11\/13\/eidolon-retrospective\/\">Ash Furrow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/artsy.github.io\/blog\/2014\/11\/13\/eidolon-retrospective\/\">\n<p>We discovered, as I mentioned earlier, that Swift just isn&rsquo;t ready for primetime yet. I want it to be, but it was probably a mistake to write the app in Swift. By our projections, it took us about four times longer than we had anticipated to complete the project (in terms of person-hours worked). A lot of that is admittedly due to our own faulty estimates, but a lot more of it is attributable to Swift&rsquo;s immaturity. In future projects, we&rsquo;re going to be more mindful about estimation.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So we&rsquo;re pretty much stuck with Swift, as much as you can be &ldquo;stuck&rdquo; with a totally <em>awesome<\/em> language that just needs some more time to have a mature ecosystem of tools. Swift does, after all, address most of my concerns with Objective-C. It has a lot of features that made developing Eidolon a joy. I&rsquo;m impressed with what Apple&rsquo;s made so far, but I&rsquo;m eagerly waiting for Xcode 6.2 and beyond.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ash Furrow: We discovered, as I mentioned earlier, that Swift just isn&rsquo;t ready for primetime yet. I want it to be, but it was probably a mistake to write the app in Swift. By our projections, it took us about four times longer than we had anticipated to complete the project (in terms of person-hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,71,341,901],"class_list":["post-10101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-languagedesign","tag-programming","tag-reactivecocoa","tag-swift-programming-language"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10102,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions\/10102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}