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Oh, no argument there -- and I wouldn't call the messages subtle, either. That said, Apple would be insane to orphan its Obj-C codebase (but it may start deprec
by Tloewald 11y ago
Oh, no argument there -- and I wouldn't call the messages subtle, either. That said, Apple would be insane to orphan its Obj-C codebase (but it may start deprecating...)
I was just pointing out that the original linked article isn't really about Swift, just an Apple framework that can be used with Swift.
- xenadu02 11y agoAuthor here; that's not correct. Swift 2 introduced compiler support for the SIMD intrinsics that make this possible. It's listed directly as one of the new features of Swift 2.
- notsony 11y agoReminds me of the Accelerate framework and Altivec for Mac OS X from 10 years ago... http://www.unix.com/man-page/OSX/7/Altivec/ http://www.unix.com/man-page/OSX/7/Altivec/
- Tloewald 11y agoThanks for the correction. So -- going back to the original point -- in fact this was Swift catching up with Obj-C, so it does pertain to Swift but is not evidence of Swift getting ahead of Obj-C.