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Swift gets a lot of traction, good to see that. I hope they manage to get the ABI and core language features stable in the next release. Updating a large projec
by dep_b 10y ago
Swift gets a lot of traction, good to see that. I hope they manage to get the ABI and core language features stable in the next release. Updating a large project always makes me a bit nervous and I'm tempted to blame problems on the migration even when it often turns out they don't.
- pjmlp 10y agoThe benefit of first class platform languages is that it doesn't matter how well devs like them. Anyone that wishes to use the platform needs to either cope with it, or face the extra level of pain of development effort by not using tools supported by the OS vendor. So with time at least Apple platforms will be a bit more safer, and enjoy an ML inspired language.
- dep_b 10y agoI program in a lot of languages that also have different styles (JavaScript, F#, C#, Objective-C, Python and PHP) and I find Swift pretty much ticking all the boxes that make it a nice language to me for the majority of tasks I like to do. I would probably use it also if I could pick other languages outside of Apple's choices. So far from what I've tried F#, Swift and Python are my favorites depending on the task at hand. C# and F# are valid options for iOS and macOS development but I wouldn't take the extra complexity of another layer just to use a different language.