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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.
The demo from the WWDC keynote is quite impressive. Unfortunately, this site seems to have been slashdotted. (Basically, Swift is "Apple acquires their own LightTable.") It's touted as a language for parallelism. I'm curious about its concurrency primitives. Since distribution is shown as a top feature, I'm going to guess that it has an Erlang-like actor model. Having ARC and not needing GC will end up being a big fu…
Swift doesn't seem to have anything to do with the parallel language at swift-lang.org. In any case, reference counting is disastrous for the parallelism story. GC thread coming along and causing an additional cache miss is way better than having to do atomic operations on reference counts all the time.
Whoops. Should've corrected that when I copied the comment over.
In any case, reference counting is disastrous for the parallelism story. GC thread coming along and causing an additional cache miss is way better than having to do atomic operations on reference counts all the time.
Why are atomic reference counts necessary? You wouldn't generally need them with an Erlang-like Actor model or for special concurrency primitives like Go channels. (That is to say, you'd only need them in the special mechanisms.)
This 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://w…
Setting up a dev environment can be one of the big reasons people fail to learn to program.
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Nope, completely different. Really scummy of Apple to just nick the name of an existing language for their new one, it's been five minutes and people are already confused.
It's like a scripting language very much. Quite amazing isn't it?
If Apple's intent is to boost their developer base, this is one tremendous boost. It seems to have the best of both dynamic and static languages.
... well I meant put it somewhere I could download from my Debian
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iBooks app is also available on the Mac. As the language is Mac and iOS specific it's not all that crazy.
hah, it seems iBooks is only available on Mavericks. Rather frustrating when I just want to read the documentation.
I'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…
It's definitely more exciting than something like an incremental update to the Apple TV.