Am 04.06.2014 um 21:12 schrieb Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf: > Hi 'steppers, > > I am sure the one or another of us has heard about that new language for > Cocoa/Cocoa Touch that Apple has recently introduced: > > https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/AboutTheLanguageReference.html > > What is our position towards this? Is there already an official GNUstep > position?
Developed within 3 days? > If not, what are your opinions? I don't see yet which problem the new language solves. Maybe removing some @ signs in code. In my view even Obj-C 1.0 was feature complete to do everything one wants in a rather neat and clean way. ObjC 2.x has simplified writing code at some places but introduced redundancy at others. 10 years ago I started to develop CocoaBasic and the language and integration of the Obj-C frameworks wasn't that much different from SWIFT: http://cocoadev.com/CocoaBasic > Does anybody know about the legal status of this language, e.g. whether we're > allowed to support it or not? IMHO languages are not protected or protectable. > > > Happy stepping, Same to you, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
