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Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs Swift: What are the differences?
Developers describe Cocoa Touch (iOS) as "The Cocoa Touch collection of frameworks includes everything needed to create iOS apps". The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services. On the other hand, Swift is detailed as "An innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch". Writing code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and apps run lightning-fast. Swift is ready for your next iOS and OS X project — or for addition into your current app — because Swift code works side-by-side with Objective-C.
Cocoa Touch (iOS) and Swift are primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" and "Languages" tools respectively.
"Backed by Apple" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Cocoa Touch (iOS), while over 241 developers mention "Ios" as the leading cause for choosing Swift.
Swift is an open source tool with 48.2K GitHub stars and 7.71K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Swift's open source repository on GitHub.
Slack, Lyft, and Zillow are some of the popular companies that use Swift, whereas Cocoa Touch (iOS) is used by Snapchat, Third Iron, and Apple. Swift has a broader approval, being mentioned in 979 company stacks & 526 developers stacks; compared to Cocoa Touch (iOS), which is listed in 32 company stacks and 18 developer stacks.
Pros of Cocoa Touch (iOS)
- Backed by Apple6
- It's just awesome4
- User Friendly Performance2
Pros of Swift
- Ios255
- Elegant178
- Not Objective-C125
- Backed by apple106
- Type inference92
- Generics60
- Playgrounds54
- Semicolon free49
- OSX39
- Tuples offer compound variables35
- Easy to learn24
- Clean Syntax23
- Open Source21
- Functional20
- Beautiful Code19
- Dynamic11
- Linux11
- Protocol-oriented programming10
- Promotes safe, readable code10
- No S-l-o-w JVM8
- Explicit optionals8
- Storyboard designer7
- Type safety5
- Optionals5
- Best UI concept5
- Super addicting language, great people, open, elegant5
- Its friendly4
- Swift is faster than Objective-C4
- Feels like a better C++4
- Highly Readable codes4
- Fail-safe4
- Powerful4
- Faster and looks better4
- Much more fun3
- Easy to learn and work3
- Protocol extensions3
- Native3
- Its fun and damn fast3
- Strong Type safety3
- Easy to Maintain3
- Protocol oriented programming2
- Esay2
- MacOS2
- Type Safe2
- All Cons C# and Java Swift Already has2
- Protocol as type2
- Objec1
- Can interface with C easily1
- Numbers with underbar1
- Optional chain1
- Runs Python 8 times faster1
- Actually don't have to own a mac1
- Free from Memory Leak1
- Swift is easier to understand for non-iOS developers.1
- Great for Multi-Threaded Programming1
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Cons of Cocoa Touch (iOS)
Cons of Swift
- Must own a mac5
- Memory leaks are not uncommon2
- Its classes compile to roughly 300 lines of assembly1
- Complicated process for exporting modules1
- Very irritatingly picky about things that’s1
- Is a lot more effort than lua to make simple functions1
- Overly complex options makes it easy to create bad code0
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