On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 19:45:29 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 19:19:27 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Just thought it would be nice to give a heads up about Apple's
plans to replace Objective-C in the long run.
The language was presented today at the WWDC Keynote, looks
like Ruby, uses ARC alongside the Objective-C runtime.
http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-wwdc-2014-keynote/
It also has a nice REPL experience, similar to Python's
worksheets in IPython.
--
Paulo
More information now made available
https://developer.apple.com/swift/
- "Closures unified with function pointers"
- "Tuples and multiple return values"
Sounds pretty neat, but I can't stand that horrid opening brace
placement. It's something I really hate about Scala as well.
balloonConfigurator = { b in
//...
}
