Looks like they pulled a Golang: http://swift-lang.org
The Swift Programming Language
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#62I'm not even an iOS developer but this is by far the most exciting thing I heard in the keynote. As an amatuer/hobbyist programmer who's self-taught with Ruby, JavaScript, etc., the one thing that was keeping me from experimenting with iOS apps was Objective-C. I know I could tackle it, but it's been hard to take the plunge. I don't know much about Swift yet, but from what I've seen it looks very exciting. So if Appl…
I spent a lot of time trying to do stuff with ObjectiveC, but just hated the syntax. That's been the biggest thing keeping me from developing Mac OSX apps; I just prefer Ruby's simplicity. I'm going to seriously give Swift a try.
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#63> Looking for the Swift parallel scripting language? Please visit http://swift-lang.org
Did they not know or do they just not care?
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#64Really excited and surprised by this announcement. Anyone know the provenance of this language? Who built it, what are its intellectual roots?
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#65swift-lang.org mentioned at the bottom of the page seems to be down.
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#66Looks like Recruiters will now be seeking Swift Developers with at least 5+ years of experience.
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#68> Looking for the Swift parallel scripting language? Please visit http://swift-lang.org Did they not know or do they just not care?
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#69This will revolutionize programming education.
Interestingly enough, the time manipulation in Swift was inspired by a game called Braid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)) released back in 2009.
This will help young programmers solidify the connection between giving the computer logical commands and what is outputted on the screen immediately.
Reminds me of how excited I was when Processing (http://www.processing.org/) was released which made it dead simple to interact with a screen and graphics. Didn't have live feedback, but it made it incredible easy to understand OOP.
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#70"When Apple announced Swift at WWDC, it got the largest cheer out of the developer audience than any other single feature." :D Sigh of relief!