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7 Swift 2 Enhancements iOS Devs Will Love
snydeq writes: InfoWorld's Paul Solt outlines how Apple has made good on Swift's emphasis on performance, approachability, and ease in its latest update, offering up seven worthwhile enhancements to Swift 2, along with code samples. 'Many of the enhancements to Swift, through both the Swift 2.0 update and subsequent Swift 2.1 update, have made the language more explicit and intentional, and in turns, Swift 2 code will be safer and easier to maintain for years to come (especially now that Swift is open source). New language constructs (keywords) in Swift 2 improve the readability of control flow — the order in which lines of code are executed. Thanks to these new keywords, collaborating on Swift code will be much more productive and efficient.'
Next year the headline will be "Swift 3 Introduced by Apple". Swift 3 is more intentional and safer than ever allowing iOS developers to do more, faster. Swift 3 addresses all the problems with Swift 2 and will be completely incompatible with Swift 2 and the syntax has completely changed. Swift 2 support is dropped as it is now obsolete.
The main reason for using swift is that apple wants their developers to be locked in, on a language level.
Oh, for crying out loud.
The reason for Swift is that Apple is highly aware of where they spend their engineering time, and Swift makes the most common Obj-C mistakes difficult or impossible to write at all. It's not some kind of Machiavellian plot.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I wouldn't run code from a programmer who'd have a problem porting code for that reason! He/she wouldn't be worthy of being called a programmer at all in fact.