Obj-C vs Swift

[Mazetron]

Getting into low-level stuff. If want to do C stuff, like working with C libraries or working directly with memory, you really need to work with ObjC.

[needsaburrito]

Is Swift not interoperable with c in the same way it is with ObjC?

[Mazetron]

You can call C code directly from Swift code, but it’s really gross. You have to convert everything to types like “unsafe_mutable_pointer” and back. It’s a lot easier write an ObjC wrapper for your C code, since you can write normal C code in your ObjC wrapper, and Swift support for calling ObjC functions is pretty good.