At first I was like 'AWESOME', than I was like 'oh fuck, not ready yet'. I am not upvoting this, until there is a GitHub repository that I can clone!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
Swift is Open Source
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#112Github repo is live now. https://github.com/apple/swift
First ever commit found here https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/afc81c1855bf711315b8e5...
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#113I wonder if Apple is positionning it as a competitor to Google's Go? They are hinting at a usage beyond just iOS and OS X.
There is at least already work being done on Swift for server-side development, and a developer behind this just commented that they are getting to work at this moment: https://www.perfect.org/ https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect
I ran into https://github.com/Zewo/Epoch the other day when I was look for a Swift web server and it looked very interesting.
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#114How is developing on iOS these days? Swift seems like such nice a nice language.
Swift is a very nice language. And it's pretty easy to learn too - it took me about 2 weeks to get the basics of it and in 1 month I was producing code at the same speed as with Objective-C. After a couple of months of Swift-ing, I now started a project in C++ and while it's nice to be back home (in the C++ world), I immediately feel like I'm on my own - C++ doesn't make any attempt to protect me from myself (althoug…
> The Swift compiler, on the other hand, will obsessively stop me from fitting a square into a circle
You might really like Haskell :)
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#115Interesting that this domain is registered at GoDaddy via DomainsByProxy, and hosted on a SoftLayer IP block. WebKit.org, for instance, is registered with CSC Corporate Domains the same as apple.com, and is hosted on an Apple-owned IP block. Perhaps a (further) indication this isn't ready for prime time yet?
Why would this at all be interesting?
Good grief, not everything is some mysterious conspiracy or some such nonsense.
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#116Now that swift is opensource i'm looking forward to some better tools being released for it. Right now xcodes support of swift is pretty lacking. No refactoring, and compile errors are fairly ambiguous sometimes. Since this has linux support i wonder if xcode or something similar will be ported to linux.
No doubt JetBrains will step up to the mark.
They already have support for swift in AppCode, but surely a community edition "SwiftStudio" can't be too much to wish for.
It worked wonders for Android development outside of Eclipse.
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#117Interesting, the compiler seems to be implemented in C++.
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#118A Golang killer?
I forsee Swift has a long future on the server-side.
That will surely be taking up some of the dev't that would otherwise be done in Go.
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#119Testing the binaries on ubuntu decompressed to to $HOME/swift and trying to execute swift: Welcome to Swift version 2.2-dev (LLVM 46be9ff861, Clang 4deb154edc, Swift 778f82939c). Type :help for assistance. 1> help opening import file for module 'SwiftShims': No such file or directory 1> I could not find any mention to environment variables that could be used to override default locations, like SWIFT_LIBRARY_PATH or s…
Type ":help". That is, type help. The : is used to differentiate between commands to the repl and swift code.
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#120Am I the only one who finds it odd that while pushing two high level but performant languages (Objective-C and Swift) Apple wrote their Swift compiler in C++?