Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 (macrumors.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Thursday June 2, 2016 @01:00AM from the to-be-continued dept.

DaGoatSpanka quotes a report from MacRumors: Apple yesterday released the first preview build of Swift 3.0, a major update to Apple's open source Swift programming language. Swift 3.0's official release is expected to come in late 2016 after proposed changes are finalized. The Swift 3.0 preview can be downloaded from the official Swift website. There are versions of Swift 3.0 available for Xcode 7.2, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 15.10. [Swift 3.0 is not source compatible with Swift 2.2 as it introduces source-breaking changes, but going forward, the goal is to make Swift 3.0 source compatible with future Swift language updates.] Swift 3.0 will likely be shown at Apple's upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).

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Re:what did they break this time by pushing-robot · 2016-06-02 01:23 · Score: 5, Informative

No, function calls.
https://www.hackingwithswift.c...
Yes, it'll make code shorter and simpler, but renaming most library methods is still a kick in the teeth to developers.

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Re:what did they break this time by Maury+Markowitz · 2016-06-02 02:14 · Score: 4, Informative

Clearly all the people complaining don't actually use Swift for production code and/or just like to complain.
I converted my antenna modelling project to 3.0 in about three minutes. Most of this was due to the new selector syntax, which I had to spend time looking up on Stackoverflow. The rest was trivial, and my code is cleaner and shorter than ever.