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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Just one more thing - Swift thread
 
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EngineerJoe
Aug 8, 2004
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 Super interesting thread. It's neat to see the thought that goes into designing a language that will be as important as Swift. My question is will we be able to get the string representation of enums?

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EngineerJoe
Aug 8, 2004
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EL BROMANCE posted:

Whenever I looked into learning Obj-C, all the books pretty much said "Oh before you learn this, you REALLY should get your head around C first...". Is Swift developed so you can essentially go into it fresh? I've done basic stuff in Python and a few web scripts but never any C based languages and that always put me off making even basic apps for iOS.

Also, presumably even though the keynotes were showing how well Swift lives alongside C and Obj-C, that's only really there for legacy purposes and Swift is all you'd actually need for fully featured apps, if that's the only language you want to use?

Swift doesn't sit on top of C like Obj-C does so you should be fine. It might even be easier if you don't know C since it diverges pretty significantly. I think that, from what's been said so far, you should be fine only knowing Swift for iOS development however there's a huge amount of open source code and libraries that you will lose out on if you cut out objective-c completely.

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