[OT] SWIFT

[kee nethery]

Swift is going to have an amazingly fast adoption rate. 

People learned Objective-C to write Apple apps. It’s not really usable for anything else. All those people using Objective-C will switch to Swift for several reasons; it is easier to learn (it has a playground), it is designed to prevent common programming errors, and you can keep your old code in Objective-C and write your new code in Swift and keep moving your app forward. Everyone using Objective-C will convert to Swift and that conversion is going to occur really rapidly.

Livecode is still a great development environment. The adoption of Swift is going to be … swift.

Kee


On Jul 14, 2014, at 1:45 PM, stephen barncard <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> Apple is touting this like the second coming....
> 
> but... haven't we been doing this for a while in Revolution/RunRev/Livecode
> ?
> 
> typeless
> just in time compiling
> prefab blocks
> easier than Obj C
> VERY FAST
> " it lets you write code on one side of your computer screen and see the
> results appear on the other side. In other words, you can watch your
> program run as you write it."
> 
> wow. But it might not be cross platform.
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.wired.com/2014/07/apple-swift/?mbid=social_fb
> *--*
> *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words*
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