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.

Comments

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!

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: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.

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

[mark-t]

... a badly implemented subset of C++

You mean like C++?