I guess Flappy Bird is now a tier 2 "hello world" :)
It certainly would be cool if it were.
Flappy Bird in Cobol!
Flappy Bird in Swift
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Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#22I guess Flappy Bird is now a tier 2 "hello world" :)
I was disappointed that they didn't use it as "The simplest possible game" in the WWDC presentation
Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#23This being the only code sample of swift I've seen, my overriding takeaway is that for the basic stuff it's remarkably similar to Objective-C with a lick of paint. If people really take to swift, it'll be interesting to see if that's because it creates a shift in programming style, or because people really are just afraid of small syntactical differences.
Swift is definitely more approachable than Objective-C for new developers.
I would imagine that is very on the reasons for creating it.
Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#24Someone needs to add Swift to the linguist gem
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#25Good work. I'll have to do 2048 instead, I guess :)
I'm quite impressed so far. Having been an Objective C and Ruby engineer, so far Swift seems to offer the best of both.
That said, OpenGL support doesn't appear to be finished yet.
Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#26I just started exploring the Book: The Swift Programming Language by Apple Inc. Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-swift-programming-langu... Hope it helps.
Can anybody put this book somewhere outside itunes? Thanks!
Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#27I just started exploring the Book: The Swift Programming Language by Apple Inc. Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-swift-programming-langu... Hope it helps.
And the same, in HTML form: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#28This being the only code sample of swift I've seen, my overriding takeaway is that for the basic stuff it's remarkably similar to Objective-C with a lick of paint. If people really take to swift, it'll be interesting to see if that's because it creates a shift in programming style, or because people really are just afraid of small syntactical differences.
Readability matters - maybe the Objective-C verbiage melts away once you're up to speed, but it certainly puts you off wanting to get there.
Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#29Swift looks fine, the only thing I don't like its that is for Apple only products... that kinda defeats the purpose of having a programming language.
Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#30I guess Flappy Bird is now a tier 2 "hello world" :)
It's the new Tetris. Years ago Tetris was the typical non-trivial target you were shooting at when trying out stuff.