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Comment by golergka | Hacker News Reader

So much Swift!

All iOS developers I know are hopeful about Swift, but say that they wouldn't use it for a serious, large-scale project yet. (I'm a Unity developer that only occasionally touches native iOS or Android code). What was your experience with it?

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That's interesting, I've had almost the opposite experience. The team I work on is slowing migrating over (new classes and classes that need refactoring are done in Swift), and most of my friends who are iOS developers have told me they're doing the same.

FWIW, I work at a medium sized company (~300 employees) who is owned by a larger company (15k employees).

Swift is ready. For a much bigger project in Swift, look at

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox

It was a rough road while we went from Swift pre-1.0 to 2.1 but it was totally worth it.

I guess you meant to link this one: https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios

In any case, Swift has been an eye opener for me, and I'm always keen to read someone else's code to learn more. Thanks for your contributions :)

Does st3fan refer to Sublime Text 3, perchance?

Firefox isn't written in Swift (and Firefox isn't hosted on Github anyway), I'm guessing that you meant https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios .

I'm a small development team (there are only 5-6 engineers, and I'm the only iOS one right now). I've gotten the go ahead to move to Swift as well. It's been fairly easy with only one strange crash so far.

I'm on a Swift project for an App in the neighbourhood of millions of DAUs. Swift is ready.

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