In this episode, Leo invites Graham Lee, Senior Research Software Engineer at the University of Oxford, who's been writing Objective-C for over 20 years and brings his experience to talk about what Swift developers should know about Objective-C and how the language works.
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Show Notes
- Why you should know something about Objective-C
- Why is Objective-C so different from Swift?
- Is there a purpose for Objective-C outside of Swift?
- Should you still write Objective-C?
- What steps to migrate Objective-C over to Swift?
- How to make sure your Swift is consumable by Objective-C?
- How to work with C++ through Objective-C?
- What are the differences between Dynamic and Static Typed languages?
- What are the benefits of Dynamic vs Static Typed languages?
- What does a PhD in Software Engineering do at Oxford?
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