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Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift

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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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  1. First Rhyme by Art3x · · Score: 4, Funny

    AAPL's YAPL

  2. Whoa 1.3x by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Whoa 1.3x by SQLGuru · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  3. Re:It's about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. Swift Programmers Wanted by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Must have 5 years experience.

  5. Re:and it needs an new OS the mess up other apps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    and the comment grammar no sense slashdot article read.

    captcha: verbally. Seriously?

  6. Re:and it needs an new OS the mess up other apps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    *that poorly.

  7. Re:Good bye source compatibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:Just what we need, another C++ clone by mark-t · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... a badly implemented subset of C++

    You mean like C++?

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    File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
  9. Re:Good bye source compatibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  10. Re:Good bye source compatibility by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  11. In related news... by surfcow · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  12. Re:You think that is the problem? by mrjimorg · · Score: 4, Funny

    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