Apple Swift, a new programming language
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 Swift is an innovative new programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Writing code is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and apps run lightning-fast. Swift is ready for your next iOS and OS X project — or for addition into your current app — because Swift code works side-by-side with Objective-C. https://developer.apple.com/swift/ |
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| a language 'platform specific'... I understand the Apple's way to link user to its garden, but honestly I think it's a loss of time in this case. A develper like to write once and deploy on multi-target (see MonkeyX, Unity & company). More interesting the METAL thing (a sort of highly optimized OpenGL/libs for its ARM A7 Cpu/Gpu). |
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| Although we only have this single window to go on + the documentation. It looks and interesting addition. Looks kinda like Basic with direct access to C without all the objectC nasties. Definitely an interesting one to watch. |
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| Interesting article with (simple) performance comparisons: http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798 |
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