Re: swift and objective-c
Re: swift and objective-c
- Subject: Re: swift and objective-c
- From: Roland King <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:03:59 +0800
On 3 Jun, 2014, at 9:36 pm, Akis Kesoglou <email@hidden> wrote:
> Coming from higher level languages, slowly moving "closer to the metal", I find Swift just a bit short of gorgeous. I find it strikes a good balance of modern features and backwards-compatibility and flexibility. In my eyes it's a nice mix of Python, Ruby and Haskell (and a bit of C++).
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That seems about the mix it appears to to me too. With some ObjC thrown in there too with the named/typed parameters. I'm still early days and haven't really seen the pattern of the language yet. To me so far it seems like there are lots of syntactic exceptions and programmer optimisations, which is why I called it PERL-y. But I'm not done reading yet.
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> It's actually refreshing to see high-performance (as claimed) languages of such high level used for app development, maybe dropping down to C/C++ for implementation of specific parts.
I think that is a great mix. Swift is compiled and honestly one compiled language is much like another in the end after a good compiler has been at it. Swift in fact being very strongly typed may be able to be compiled even better than ObjC.
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> I only hope that Apple will release the language/runtime so that people from all platforms are able to use it (haven't seen any mention of this). I guess it can happen, as Cocoa, NSObject etc are not part of the language.
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> Akis
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