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Which is still younger than Rust or Go, it's probably the youngest widely used language.
by hyperpape 10y ago
Which is still younger than Rust or Go, it's probably the youngest widely used language.
- kibwen 10y agoRust didn't start real development until 2010, it was mostly notes and incomplete PoCs before then (which I'm sure Lattner was doing for Swift before 2010, and Pike for Go as well).
- hyperpape 10y agoAs I understand it, July 2010 was literally the first commit for Swift in any form (https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/04/apples-new-programming-language-has-been-in-development-for-nearly-four-years/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/04/apples-new-programming-lan...), as a personal project for Chris Lattner. I think the complete history is on Github now. Of course, age only tells you so much about the amount of work put into the project, and Rust in particular took a huge amount of conceptual work to get its current model of ownership.