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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 zeckalpha »

praveenster wrote: post #13
rdtsc wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You can probably include Go alongside Rust.

Or TypeScript? Rust and Go are not much alike.

Re: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Post by alexpersian »

akanet wrote: post #33
amasad wrote: post #17

I'm also planning on adding support for Swift to https://repl.it once I figure out how to implement a proper REPL with it.

We also just added Swift support over at https://coderpad.io for anyone that wants to run swift during interviews. Amjad, I got started filing some issues against codemirror for better Swift support :) https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/issues/3680

Just wanted to say that coderpad is fantastic. :)

Re: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Post by coupdejarnac »

sosedoff wrote: post #14

If you're looking for something similar for other programming languages too, check out https://bit.run/ . It supports Ruby, JS, Go, Python, Rust, PHP and many more.

Would it be alright for me to embed bit.run in a Swift tutorial site I'm making? My contact info is in my profile.

Re: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Post by IBMContainerGuy »

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…

Hi hmottestad!

I am one of the people working on the IBM container service that's available as part of Bluemix. I am not here in any official capacity, just as someone who wants to understand what the pain points of our customers.

Let me start by saying that I understand your pain. As every product on the market, we have issues occasionally, such as the authentication one you mentioned or the networking. However, these are only exceptions and rarely affect our users, at least as far as we are aware. Did this happen repeatedly or was it a one time occurrence?

With regards to the ticketing system, I believe you are correct. Things are not as smooth as you or I would like them to be. I will pass this on to the management chain.

For the uploading speed of images, I also believe this may be quite rare, since I cannot remember hearing complaints about it. Did this happen on separate occasions?

With that being said, please send us tickets when something is not going the way you'd expect.

Thank you for your feedback!

Re: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox

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Post by niutech »

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

Better than Kotlin is Eclipse Xtend aka Swift for Android, which compiles to Java: http://xtend-lang.org
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