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The Swift Programming Language

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Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by freehunter »

stcredzero wrote: post #30
kunstmord wrote: post #14

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).

I mean the inclusion of Python, seems so random to me It's supposed to be a "mainstream" scripting language. Also, it's an easy way for them to get favorable numbers for their presentation.

On the Ars liveblog, I didn't see any mention of Swift support for other platforms. Are we going to see Swift on Linux and Windows as well?

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by davidw »

CanSpice wrote: post #104
juvoni wrote: post #66

Looks like Recruiters will now be seeking Swift Developers with at least 5+ years of experience.

Yeah, I saw @Stammy's tweet too. https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/473536229531586562

By my count, approximately 1839 people have tweeted something similar so far. The first one was pretty funny.

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by k-mcgrady »

varenc wrote: post #93

It seems like the only way to view the programming language documentation is on iBooks on an iOS device? For a programming book, this is ridiculous. Edit: The latest version of OS X does support iBooks. Lets hope you have that.

iBooks app is also available on the Mac. As the language is Mac and iOS specific it's not all that crazy.

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by sp332 »

sumeno wrote: post #99
Xorlev wrote: post #61

Looks like they pulled a Golang: http://swift-lang.org

You do realise that link is completely unrelated to what Apple is doing, right? EDIT: Nevermind, my mistake. I thought the comment was about Apple was making their own language like Google did with Go, not Go! already existing as a language

Yeah, that's the point. There's already a programming language called Swift but Apple is using the name anyway.

Re: The Swift Programming Language

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Post by octopus »

kclay wrote: post #49

Maybe I'll pickup iOS dev, do you still have to have an mac to dev?

Yes, you need a Mac, especially if you want to be able to use Xcode and Swift.

If you are short on money, you can try to buy a second hand iMac or a MacMini (just be sure it will support the next OS X version 10.10).

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