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Apple's Swift Language Might Actually be Good

posted by martyb on Sunday June 14 2015, @10:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the swift-rise-in-popularity dept.

Robotron writes:

The hype around Swift is near non-existent by Apple standards, yet the language has attracted high praise since its release last year. Swift is essentially one of the very few Apple products representing a clear departure from the hardware-led approach Steve Jobs took to the business. If Stack Overflow's 2015 dev survey is anything to go by, it looks as if the Swift language might have potential to really shake things up.

Might the days of Apple programmers relying upon objective C be numbered?

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 15 2015, @08:58AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 15 2015, @08:58AM (#196402) Journal

    it only runs on Apple

    Wrong. Linux and open source is part of the v2.0 release.

    It may seem pedantic, but I detect a slightly misleading use of tense time. The as precise as possible way to put it is:

    Linux and open source will be part of the v2.0 release. Sometime "later this year" [theregister.co.uk]

    On the other side, what should I be so enthused by Swift on Linux? For some +Informative mods, what does the language brings new/useful to Linux? (why should I believe is something else than an expression of Not-Invented-Here-Syndrome coming from Apple?)
    Does it have some standard libraries besides OSX/Cocoa to make it useful? Multi-threading, async/futures... something?

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  • (Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Monday June 15 2015, @03:26PM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Monday June 15 2015, @03:26PM (#196537)

    You shouldn't be excited at all. You hate Apple and thus won't be using it. Some of the more open minded language experimenters will though.

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