Nicholas Cole <nicholas.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course, I wish they had picked Python rather than inventing their > own language. But Apple put a huge stock in the ability of their > libraries to make full use of multiple cores.
The GIL is not relevant if they stick to the Objective-C runtime and LLVM. > The GIL is surely the > sticking point here. It is also clear (reading the Swift > documentation) that they wanted a script-like language but with strict > typing. A Python with static typing would have been far better, IMHO. It seems they have created a Python-JavaScript bastard with random mix of features. Unfortunately they retained the curly brackets from JS... Are Python apps still banned from AppStore, even if we bundle an interpreter? If not, I see no reason to use Swift instead of Python and PyObjC – perhaps with some Cython if there is "need for speed". Sturla -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
