Ironically, you seem to have the stereotypical American education. No one is going to lose faith in a government-issued currency because weather takes out power for a week. But it will still play hell with people's lives if they cannot purchase anything for that length of time. When you live in a tiny place, you might find that getting the power back doesn't take too long. Now extend that to the entire north-east sector of the US. Things take longer when you have 1000s more km2 to cover.
The IRS also won't do DD for previous-year filings. I have no idea, why not, though. When I got my refund check, I used a currency exchange which deposited the amount directly in my local account. I don't know if they had to sit on the check until it cleared, but I had my money in a couple hours.
So Swift was a rip-off a language released 2 years later, and Apple accurately stated that source compatibility would be broken. You are mixed-up and stupid.
Apple said from day one that Swift would not remain source compatible until Apple says that Swift will remain source compatible. Apparently, everyone in the world except you got the message.
Just because no one else is doing serious development with ObjC does not mean you are locked in. The clang compiler is part of the LLVM suite, and is available on every platform that the rest of LLVM is available on. Nothing is stopping anyone from creating ObjC libraries on non-Apple platforms.
You can open source iOS apps, and you have closed source on Windows and Linux. The two are orthogonal. And the benefits of ABI come with the libraries. Specifically, the ability to ship standard or common libraries with the OS, and expect that apps will be able to use them. Even glibc relies on ABI compatibility.
What lack of C/C++ support? Swift can't bridge to C++, but it does bridge nicely to C. And all platforms which Swift supports also support C and C++. Do you have an actual argument, or are you just spouting stuff that looks technical, but makes no sense?
How is it not "native" on Linux? The toolchain creates native binaries, and Swift can interop with C, including the clib, just fine. There's no pre-existing UI toolkits, but that's hardly Apple's fault. Not as if Apple wrote UI/AppKit just for Swift, after all.
Apple fully supports the Linux port, and there is an unofficial Windows port. That covers every server and desktop that matters these days. (The Windows port still needs a lot of work.)
You are an incredible moron. There has never been a completely unregulated market (and if there's regulation, who is imposing it?) that hasn't devolved into a dictatorship (in economics terms, a monopoly).
You are an ignorant piece of shit, and there's no pain you don't deserve to experience. Those quotes are caused by Slashdot not understanding encodings which have existed for about 30 years, and which are heavily used by Apple.
You are already in that position, the moment you host on a 3rd-party's servers. MS has decades of experience keeping NDAs and not leaking source code of customers. Github has essentially been lucky.
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Ironically, you seem to have the stereotypical American education. No one is going to lose faith in a government-issued currency because weather takes out power for a week. But it will still play hell with people's lives if they cannot purchase anything for that length of time. When you live in a tiny place, you might find that getting the power back doesn't take too long. Now extend that to the entire north-east sector of the US. Things take longer when you have 1000s more km2 to cover.
It's called being a geographically-insignificant country, actually. Your "first world" status has nothing to do with it.
The IRS also won't do DD for previous-year filings. I have no idea, why not, though. When I got my refund check, I used a currency exchange which deposited the amount directly in my local account. I don't know if they had to sit on the check until it cleared, but I had my money in a couple hours.
So Swift was a rip-off a language released 2 years later, and Apple accurately stated that source compatibility would be broken. You are mixed-up and stupid.
Apple said from day one that Swift would not remain source compatible until Apple says that Swift will remain source compatible. Apparently, everyone in the world except you got the message.
Just because no one else is doing serious development with ObjC does not mean you are locked in. The clang compiler is part of the LLVM suite, and is available on every platform that the rest of LLVM is available on. Nothing is stopping anyone from creating ObjC libraries on non-Apple platforms.
Object Pascal was Borland's dialect of Pascal.
"No" is a lot easier to type.
You can open source iOS apps, and you have closed source on Windows and Linux. The two are orthogonal. And the benefits of ABI come with the libraries. Specifically, the ability to ship standard or common libraries with the OS, and expect that apps will be able to use them. Even glibc relies on ABI compatibility.
Apple has supported Objective-C since 2000, or so (I'm too lazy to check when exactly OS X 10.0 was released).
Calling C is trivial in Swift. Grouping C and C++ together in this respect just makes you look like an idiot.
What lack of C/C++ support? Swift can't bridge to C++, but it does bridge nicely to C. And all platforms which Swift supports also support C and C++. Do you have an actual argument, or are you just spouting stuff that looks technical, but makes no sense?
You haven't made any arguments, either. Only some ridiculous accusations for which no evidence exists.
How is it not "native" on Linux? The toolchain creates native binaries, and Swift can interop with C, including the clib, just fine. There's no pre-existing UI toolkits, but that's hardly Apple's fault. Not as if Apple wrote UI/AppKit just for Swift, after all.
Can you name a platform that has an Objective-C compiler today, and not a Swift compiler? An original NeXTstation, I guess.
Apple fully supports the Linux port, and there is an unofficial Windows port. That covers every server and desktop that matters these days. (The Windows port still needs a lot of work.)
You are an incredible moron. There has never been a completely unregulated market (and if there's regulation, who is imposing it?) that hasn't devolved into a dictatorship (in economics terms, a monopoly).
English's not your native language?
Your head (if upright) is further from the center of the Earth, so it's traveling faster than your feet. Should it not age more slowly?
There is no pain that has ever been felt by a human that you don't deserve to experience.
iOS has had a task manager since at least 3.2.
You are an ignorant piece of shit, and there's no pain you don't deserve to experience. Those quotes are caused by Slashdot not understanding encodings which have existed for about 30 years, and which are heavily used by Apple.
Dogs are not made of independent component parts. You're just a useless, stupid piece of shit.
And you can be trusted to be a pile of shit. It's the only thing you can handle.
You are already in that position, the moment you host on a 3rd-party's servers. MS has decades of experience keeping NDAs and not leaking source code of customers. Github has essentially been lucky.