Apple’s Swift language since it’s release in September 2014 has already caused much controversy. In this post I will try to provide arguments for and AGAINST using Swift in your projects.

Arguments against

• Swift cannot be mixed with C and C++ code - for each function/class you want to use in your Swift code you must create an Objective C wrapper and include it in the bridging header of your project.

Arguments for

• Compared to Obj-C, syntax is cleaner and easier to read: myObj.doSomething(foo, anotherArg: bar) is shorter and much prettier than [myObj doSomethingWithArg:foo anotherArg:bar];

This list is far from complete and will be frequently updated.