Moving from Objective-C to Swift — Is It Really That Simple?
summary
The talk examines migrating a five-year Objective-C app to Swift and the practical challenges of doing that without harming the business. It covers motivations (faster development, fewer bugs, easier hiring, protection from legacy frameworks/APIs) and outlines staged steps for performing the migration.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:54Business migration needs
- 7:40Nullability issues
- 9:50Third-party library problems
- 18:26Swift in Objective-C
- 26:16Team organization
- 31:34Swift results and benefits
- 32:38Q&A
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