On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > Pretty sure c/c++ will remain the best cross platform option for a long time. Whatever promise of Java and related languages as providing cross platform environments, this just never happened. Closest would actually be .net and friends, I believe. Even the rise of such interesting projects as the unreal engine in the browser seems to be taking advantage of the fact that the "cross platform" portion is just a c dialect language. -- 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.
