On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 12:10:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 16/06/14 17:16, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
What say you to that, Walter?
Apple have committed to pervasive ARC, which you consistently
argue is
not feasible...
Have I missed something, or is this a demonstration that it is
actually practical?
I think Swift is only intended for high level application
development. It doesn't feel like a true systems or general
purpose language.
Why not? It enjoys feature parity with Objective-C and then some.
You want to do typical unsafe C style coding when required to do
so, it is possible:
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/BuildingCocoaApps/InteractingWithCAPIs.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014216-CH8-XID_13
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Paulo
