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Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Re: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Post by AlphaSite »

jorgemf wrote: post #7
Shivetya wrote: post #2

I am looking for a new language to learn, preferably more PC style platform focused, would this be a good language to learn?

Have you tried kotlin? It is developed by jetbrains, works in the JVM and you can mix java code and kotlin code in the same project. It is still in beta but it has been developed for more years than swift and both look quite similar. Jet brains said they wanted to release the version 1.0 the the end of this year... Plus it is fully integrated in intelliJ idea

They're approximately the same age, but regardless, it shouldn't factor into your decision.

Re: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Post by AlphaSite »

AndrewGarner wrote: post #12
Shivetya wrote: post #2

I am looking for a new language to learn, preferably more PC style platform focused, would this be a good language to learn?

Look into F#. It's open source. Works on Linux, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, Windows, etc. It has a good ecosystem and tooling built around it already but you can also tap into the C# ecosystem, if necessary. It compares really well to Swift: http://www.slideshare.net/ScottWlaschin/swift-vslanguagex but even without that comparison, it's worth a look on its own.

Does it really work on iOS sans xamarian?

Re: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Post by vizzah »

bitdiddle wrote: post #20
hmottestad wrote: post #6

It's on Bluemix!!! Here is my experience with Bluemix: 1. We needed to get bills to send to our accounting department. There is no way to get this out of Bluemix. We needed to contact 5 different people and send 2 different support tickets. 2. At one point we couldn't log into our accounts, the authentication server was down. 3. The docker container doesn't always get internet. Also it sure as hell is guaranteed to n…

Buy some of the stock, you'll feel better :)

Shouldn't he "short" the stock instead? ;)

Re: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Post by ihsw »

rdtsc wrote: post #8
Shivetya wrote: post #2

I am looking for a new language to learn, preferably more PC style platform focused, would this be a good language to learn?

What do you want to do with the language?: Here are some choices I think are interesting as new languages: Elixir : interpreted / scalability / concurrency / fault tolerance/ friendly community Rust : compiled / close to C speed / memory safety / concurrency TypeScript : compiles to Javascript but with types / runs in the browser Elm : compiles to Javascrtipt / functional / runs in the browser

It should be noted that there are some caveats to TypeScript, namely that it's type-safety is only compile-time and not at run-time. It is best-effort type-safety.

That said, the edge cases are few and far between. TS is a fantastic language to work with.

Re: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Post by schnevets »

I wonder if this was announced as a reaction to Swift going open source. I could see some IBM team working on this system as a POC, and suddenly being given an urgent deadline to coincide with the license change.

Gain from the momentum and maybe turn a pet project into something bigger. I guess that's the benefit of having tens of thousands of developers...

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