Currently in Swift, those stack traces are even worse. I won’t post one until they actually release it to be fair to Apple…but why oh why when they were making a ‘modern’ programming language could they not solve this? I know, the Objective-C runtime is hailed by many the world over as being fast, and awesome. But it’s 2014, the things I actually care about are the problems Microsoft and Sun Microsystems solved, memory management and reliability. If it comes at the expense of a tiny amount of speed, I’ll happily take it.
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As much as people hate Java, and to some extent I’m in that camp too, here’s an equivalent crash from our Android app […] Yes I know, ha ha Null Pointer, Java, LOL. But that’s an exact line number friends. What did the user do? They tapped the subscribe button. Which page where they on? The Podcast Dialog. Zero ambiguity. Guess how many of our Android crashes we get that for? 100%. In iOS we’d be lucky if even 30% of our crashes had stack traces we can line up to actual things we can then reproduce.
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Swift and Debuggability
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