The Swift Programming Language • Hacker News Board

Oh God, they just compared the speed of Objective C, Swift and... Python! It's nice to see Swift being faster than Objective C, etc., but what has Python got to do with coding native iOS/OS X apps? Of course it's going to fail at speed when compared to a static compiled language.

What a weird and pointless comparison, imo (I mean the inclusion of Python, seems so random to me).

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by outworlder » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:59 PM UTC

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Is that the same language? It looks completely different.

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by judofyr » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:59 PM UTC

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Wrong language.

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by serg_chernata » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 6:59 PM UTC

outworlder wrote: post #9

Ok, what about runtime support for older devices/iOS versions? They didn't say anything about it.

They mentioned complete compatibility with C so it sounds like it should be ok.

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by moinnadeem » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 7:00 PM UTC

paperwork wrote: post #6

bobz wrote: post #5

Anybody have any reference to language docs?

Supposed to be on ibooks

Here you go: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/swift-programming-language/...

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by k-mcgrady » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 7:00 PM UTC

outworlder wrote: post #9

Ok, what about runtime support for older devices/iOS versions? They didn't say anything about it.

They said that they were accepting apps built with Swift for iOS 8 and OSX 10.10 so sounds like it won't work with older OS version. They weren't all that specific about it though so I could be wrong.

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by j3ali » Mon, Jun 02, 2014, 7:00 PM UTC

akras14 wrote: post #7

Can anybody find a link to the Swift guide that they mentioned in Keynote? All I see is Taylor Swift books.

LOL