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It's certainly the case that some folks get early access, I don't really think that was necessary to make this happen so quickly. I'm not saying they didn't hav
by brandonbloom 12y ago
It's certainly the case that some folks get early access, I don't really think that was necessary to make this happen so quickly. I'm not saying they didn't have early access, just that they...
1) already had a code generator for Objective-C
2) already had infrastructure for alternate code generators (they also support C#)
3) Swift and Objective-C share the same libraries and have similar semantics where it counts
4) Writing code generators isn't really all that difficult
It's perfectly believable that they banged out enough of a first-cut at this to make an announcement within a day or two of the Swift release.
- mantrax5 12y agoOf course. You know Swift is just so natural to both Objective-C, Java, Scala, C# etc. devs already, and so much simpler than Objective-C, I have the feeling we'll see the fastest adoption of a brand new language in the history of computing here.