All ur job posts specify they want people who know obj-c but it seems like there’s so little incentive for people without obj-c experience to study up on it, since it is an “older” language and not as future proof? Ie if a dev wanted to spend time learning flutter or learning obj-c I’d feel like most would choose flutter?
Who uses flutter for serious native development? When flutter doesn’t work, you are still going to need to know the objc to fix it. As for future proof. Objc has been around longer than Google, and will outlive flutter. These code once solutions are only popular for a few years. Flutter is just the latest phonegap.
There’s so many damn recruiters for flutter right now. Paying big bucks. $100/hr full remote for 2yoe of enterprise flutter exp is insane
$100/hr for mobile development is not big bucks.
I Have some perspective here. I think you are always going to need to know objective c if you work in big tech. Complete rewrites almost never happen, the one and only I’ve seen and lucky to have been part of was at Uber where we completely remade the rider and driver app. Even then though there were still libraries, that didn’t make the cut to be rewritten. Eats is still mostly objective c as well. These big places don’t have much incentive to rewrite legacy stuff. It’ll be around for a while. To be honest, it’s going to help you understand the iOS SDK better as well. A lot of the benefits of swift hide a lot of the manual shit you used to have to do with objc, so knowing it is going to help you debug for example.
Didn’t Airbnb do a giant rewrite from react native to swift and kotlin?
I think they did. But like I said. I would be blown away if Airbnb doesn’t still have a shit ton of libraries in objc that the core app doesn’t use. I could be wrong though because they did do a rewrite into react native from objc I believe. Just some advice from a gray beard. Take it or leave it kid!
We’re going to rewrite our entire code base to Typescript, and it’s going to be great - Evan
Godspeed 🫡
Future proof? There is no future proofing languages and libraries used. Enterprise apps will have objc. It's like saying no one is going to still be using PHP 😂
There’s no such thing as fully future proof no, but obj-c, php, Java, etc are all old. I’m personally more interested in using my free time to learn about newer tech stacks and learning those old enterprise ones on the job.
Is this meme true too?
Yeah we’re gonna rewrite everything as python
Okay mr Google bus driver. Do u drive one of the blacked out tech employee shuttles that’s picks people up from SF to drive them to their office in Mountain View?
Ik ur joking but Tbh Google is way bigger than snap and Pinterest. Both companies have what, a mobile app and a website…? It doesn’t seem hard to convert that kinda codebase to not have obj c lol. Converting all of Google to Python sounds way bigger.