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0 pointspaulryanrogers3y ago0 comments

Can you remind me what's the difference? I thought Cocoa was older and Swift is the future, so wouldn't Swift be the most performant and beautiful choice?

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piperswe3y ago

Cocoa is the user interface toolkit used by macOS and iOS applications alike (though on iOS it's called Cocoa Touch). Swift is a programming languages that's often used to write Cocoa applications, usually through the AppKit, UIKit, or SwiftUI frameworks.

Wowfunhappy3y ago

I'll add that I think GP is confusing Cocoa with Objective-C. Swift does replace Objective-C.

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0 pointspaulryanrogers3y ago0 comments

Can you remind me what's the difference? I thought Cocoa was older and Swift is the future, so wouldn't Swift be the most performant and beautiful choice?

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piperswe3y ago

Wowfunhappy3y ago

I'll add that I think GP is confusing Cocoa with Objective-C. Swift does replace Objective-C.

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