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Looks like Recruiters will now be seeking Swift Developers with at least 5+ years of experience.
What I find more amazing is that, as humans, we have all chosen "5+ years" as the experience level in our jokes.
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…
How do you see it as revolutionizing programming education? I'm pretty ignorant in this area, but it seems like a very high level language that abstracts a ton of stuff - and very platform specific too if I'm not mistaken. Is that really where we want people to start? I would have thought either a highly graphical language with buttons and widgets for early education, then moving onto platform-agnostic stuff like jav…
What kind of benchmark produced 220 times something faster than Python? My guess is that they did it on a mobile device and used an application like this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/python-2.7-for-ios/id4857298...
For those without iBook, here's an excerpt from "The Swift Programming Language": http://pastebin.com/xsr401gt
> Looking for the Swift parallel scripting language? Please visit http://swift-lang.org Did they not know or do they just not care?
--Steve Jobs
> Looking for the Swift parallel scripting language? Please visit http://swift-lang.org Apple knew there was Swift-Lang, and still called this Swift. At least they link to it from their website!
Sigh.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, same here. It looks pretty JavaScript-y, which is familiar at least. I think this is a good move on Apple's part.
It's probably a wise decision to have an "Algol patterned" language. No non Algol patterned language has ever become a mainstream programming language to my knowledge.
Meanwhile, there is the Swift eBook at http://book.swiftlang.eu
“You also don’t need to write semicolons at the end of every statement.” Please. Please. PLEASE don't be whitespace delimited!
Oh. I was rather hoping it would be! But still, there's not a lot to hate. It looks like a cleaner javascript at first glance. Not quite as pretty as Python but then, what is. :)