Chris Lattner on Swift
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Chris Lattner on Swift
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Re: Chris Lattner on Swift
#2uh... that link is his resume, and anything "on" swift is basically a single sentence saying that it is a programming language that ripped things off from a lot of different places, with a link to wikipedia.
dumb.
Re: Chris Lattner on Swift
#3It's amazing that Apple managed to go from hatching the idea in mid-2010 to releasing a fully working framework 4 years later, with tight IDE integration, huge amount of testing and compatibility without a single leak (that I've heard of).
Re: Chris Lattner on Swift
#4It's amazing that Apple managed to go from hatching the idea in mid-2010 to releasing a fully working framework 4 years later, with tight IDE integration, huge amount of testing and compatibility without a single leak (that I've heard of).
No doubt. Also amazing is that they promoted a compiler architect to eventually lead the whole tools group. This is good news.
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#5Great to see the credit to Bret Victor and Chris Granger's Light Table. Apple's resources can really help move forward these new ideas of what an IDE can be. If Swift is successful, a whole generation of young developers will use and improve on these ideas. Very exciting to see what happens.
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#6Site seems to be buckling under load. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Re: Chris Lattner on Swift
#7It looks like Rust was a major influence. It has been interesting seeing all these posts claiming Swift borrowed from _their_ language.
Obviously there is a lot of feature influence between languages but it was interesting to see the ones he called out explicitly.
Re: Chris Lattner on Swift
#8Apple really took a big step. Waiting to see amazing stuffs done with Swift.
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#9Really excited for Swift. I've tried and failed many times to learn Objective C and felt that the barrier to entry was a bit to high for myself. As a someone who writes JavaScript for a living, Swift is very inviting.
Re: Chris Lattner on Swift
#10Chris demonstrated Swift and Playgrounds at WWDC 2014:
"I can build anything with Swift... from a social media application, all the way up to a high-performance, 3D game using Metal."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKMAV6owYh4#t=6436
He wrote this chapter (entitled LLVM) in the book, "The Architecture of Open Source Applications":
http://aosabook.org/en/llvm.html
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On the general topic, I wrote this [1] a little earlier in another thread; I'm just impressed with how Apple is becoming a gaming powerhouse.