I wonder about Swift in terms of performance of apps. Traditionally Games companies use C++ for their games engines and on iOS just use the minimum Objective-C to act as the glue to the operating system. For all Objective-C apps then yes Swift will be a big improvement but for those where it was kept to a minimum the difference may not be as dramatic.
I think it is good that Apple are moving away from Objective-C. Objective-C did feel like a pet project of Steve Jobs and now that he is no longer leading Apple they have the opportunity to replace it with something more modern. It shouldn't be hard for swift to be more modern than Objective-C. I expect as I will be developing mobile apps for my company I will have the chance to give a first hand verdict of what I think of Swift. To be honest it is kind of nice to think I may manage to dodge having to do so much Objective-C as long as swift is backwards compatible with older versions of iOS. I hope it is. Carl On 4 June 2014 16:50, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Though I'm upset that the most popular answer fails to mention the >> complete lack of features for tackling concurrency! > > > I'm unconvinced there is any point to syntactic support for concurrency. > > Support concurrency in the runtime/bytecode and the libraries, absolutely. > But in the syntax? What does that buy you besides complicating the grammar? > > -- > Cédric > > > -- > Cédric > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
