On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 16:57:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 14:50:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
ART. Of course Metal isn't general-purpose, nobody said it
is, but I don't see why you'd say Swift isn't.
Swift is clearly designed around Objective-C and Cocoa.
Oh, and I didn't respond to this because I didn't even know
what you meant, think I got it now. You're now saying Swift
isn't general-purpose simply because it's initially designed
around Apple's Cocoa OS APIs? Being tied to a single platform
doesn't make a language any less general-purpose, and since
they announced that they're open-sourcing Swift later this
year, it will be ported to other platforms, just as Obj-C has.
Apple has become such a taboo subject. They've invested so much
on subconscious gratifications that nobody can discuss the
company objectively. I mean, Swift is general purpose because the
holy masters of computer culture "want" to open source it, and
open source can become general purpose, right? Eh..
