I do not think it is likely, but it would be somewhat interesting if one day macOS and IOS were the only two platform using the least diffused/niche dialect of Swift while on Linux, Android, and Windows people were all using a dialect of Swift which became the de facto standard in the case Apple refused to merge the forked changes upstream.
Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Jul 2016, at 08:47, L. Mihalkovic via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Regards > (From mobile) > >> On Jul 12, 2016, at 6:22 AM, Josh Parmenter via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My reply didn’t go to the list… my apologies… >> >> On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:19 PM, Ford Prefect >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> People say nearly every WWDC code example was Swift. That says to newcomers >> "learn Swift, not Obj C". >> Swift is being ported on other platforms but Objective C is not. >> Google has talked about switching to it, which may be unrelated but likely >> not since the Valley is a small place. >> >> More people using Swift is great. But C is still used. C++ is used. Why does >> Obj-C need to go away for Swift to gain a larger dev base? >> >> If Google starts to use Swift, do you see Java going away? > > It opens some interesting lines of thinking... Will google eventually become > "the future of swift"? I would not be entirely surprised considering the > man-power they have compared to apple, what they already did in the past in > similar situations. > >> >> Obj-C has been here for awhile. Certainly before iOS and even before OS X. I >> don’t see it going away any time soon, even in those eco-systems. >> >> Best, >> >> Josh >> >> >> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 at 8:03 PM >> From: "Josh Parmenter" >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >> To: "Ford Prefect" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: Re: [swift-evolution] adding Obj-C syntax to Swift? >> Where is this wall with writing you speak of? >> My feeling is, if you want Obj-C syntax, why not use Obj-C? I actually don't >> get the feeling that access to it as a development language is really going >> away. >> Best >> Josh >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 11, 2016, at 20:00, Ford Prefect via swift-evolution >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> Perhaps one of the most disliked aspects of Swift >> is the Rust-like syntax, which requires that each coder resign himself to >> grin-and-bear-it in order to obtain the benefits of Swift. >> Since "the writing is on the wall" that Objective C >> is in its last days at least as far as app writers go >> (maybe within Apple it will endure), is there any >> chance of sweetening the pill a bit by giving us >> back the more readable syntax of Objective C, in particular >> the method call syntax? It just made more sense to >> format a method call like Smalltalk. >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
