> On Jun 13, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> > wrote: > > Bingo. Even after reading all the posts in this thread, I still don’t know > what problem Swift addresses, and no one seems to be able to answer that > question — not even Apple in its marketing hype.
Do you remember the Goto-Fail bug that was hidden deep in Apple’s source code? Swift is designed to stop things like that from happening. From the tone of all of the Swift talks, it seems that Safety and preventing exploitable bugs are the main point of Swift. There are others, of course (e.g. increased optimization/speed), but that seems to be the primary one that Apple is concerned with. Thanks, Jon _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
