Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift

jmcbain (1233044) writes "At WWDC 2014 today, Apple announced Swift, a new programming language. According to a report by Ars Technica: 'Swift seems to get rid of Objective C's reliance on defined pointers; instead, the compiler infers the variable type, just as many scripting languages do. ... The new language will rely on the automatic reference counting that Apple introduced to replace its garbage-collected version of Objective C. It will also be able to leverage the compiler technologies developed in LLVM for current development, such as autovectorization. ... Apple showed off a couple of cases where implementing the same algorithm in Swift provided a speedup of about 1.3X compared to the same code implemented in Objective C.'" Language basics, and a few worthwhile comments on LtU.

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First Rhyme

[Art3x]

AAPL's YAPL

Whoa 1.3x

[the eric conspiracy]

That's what about 1/10,000th of what hiring a good programmer would get you, at the price of not being to find any programmers.

Re:Whoa 1.3x

[SQLGuru]

Now hiring Swift programmers. 10 years experience required. /sarcasm.

Re:It's about time

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't wait to add this to my résumé.... I already have 2 years of experience with Swift!

Swift Programmers Wanted

[the eric conspiracy]

Must have 5 years experience.

Re:Swift Programmers Wanted

[HornWumpus]

Good news; I've got over 20 years experience. (bullshitting my way into positions with languages I don't know. Then learning fast.)

Guaranteed results...'I can guarantee anything you want.' Bender

Re:and it needs an new OS the mess up other apps

[Anonymous Coward]

and the comment grammar no sense slashdot article read.

captcha: verbally. Seriously?

Re:and it needs an new OS the mess up other apps

[Anonymous Coward]

*that poorly.

Re:Good bye source compatibility

[Anonymous Coward]

Creating GUI's in OSX is currently problematic because of font issues.

Obviously this must be the case as no-one else is creating GUIs in OS X either. That, and the fact that OS X is hated the world over by designers for it's awful handling of fonts.

Who designed this, and what drugs were they on?

[phantomfive]

My favorite part of immutability is 'let.'
If you write:

let i = 5;
You have just declared 'i' to be immutable. Intuitive, isn't it?

Re:Just what we need, another C++ clone

[mark-t]

... a badly implemented subset of C++

You mean like C++?

Re:It's about time

[Anonymous Coward]

Oooh, sorry. We're only looking for candidates with at least 5 years of experience with Swift.

Re:Good bye source compatibility

[Anonymous Coward]

Could you tell me who your team is? I have a tumblr for really shitty software and I'd love to feature them!

Re:Good bye source compatibility

[Frosty Piss]

Why is this dumb post modded insightful? You can still use all the same languages you did before.

Because Slashdot Sheep have a childish hate for apple, as they post comments from their iPhones?

Re:Good bye source compatibility

[Jane Q. Public]

That, and the fact that OS X is hated the world over by designers for it's awful handling of fonts.

As a programmer, I can tell you that designers are hated the world over for their awful handling of fonts.

Re:Good bye source compatibility

[phantomfive]

I believe they can even coexist inline, which makes me shudder to think, but there it is.

If that makes you shudder, then this will terrify you. It compiles in eight different languages.

In related news...

[surfcow]

... HR departments began advertising for programmers with 3+ years of Swift programming experience.

Re:You think that is the problem?

[mrjimorg]

No, they Siri'd it. And Siri told them that there was no restaurants in the immediate area with the name swift so they figured they were ok