'Swift' Programming Language Hits GM Status for iOS, OS X GM Coming with Yosemite

[skadd]

Personally, I've been writing a Notification Center widget (one that displays iTunes Lyrics -> pic) using Swift and have been absolutely loving it.

The language has already evolved a lot during the betas for the better. I wonder what's next for Swift 2.0 or when that will be released. It would be really nice if Apple starts rewriting Cocoa/UIKit using Swift too.

Just name it Lyrical. LyricalToday gives me a bad quality impression. I don't know why. Just my 2 cents

 

[Watabou]

Just name it Lyrical. LyricalToday gives me a bad quality impression. I don't know why. Just my 2 cents

Thanks, I was actually planning on calling it Lyrical. The name LyricalToday is just for testing purposes

 

[t0mat0]

When's the NDA lift for Swift? (wondering when the teaching material on Swift can get released from)
Is there an NDA for Swift for iOS, separate for Swift for Mac apps?

Sept 17/19?

 

[Watabou]

When's the NDA lift for Swift? (wondering when the teaching material on Swift can get released from)
Is there an NDA for Swift for iOS, separate for Swift for Mac apps?

Sept 17/19?

I don't think Swift was under NDA at all. The APIs that were released in WWDC were freely allowed to be discussed as explained by this blog post: http://oleb.net/blog/2014/06/apple-lifted-beta-nda/

I guess you can take that to mean any new APIs or changes to the APIs since WWDC were not allowed to be discussed. But then they made Xcode/Swift free to the general public (who had the free dev account).

 

[t0mat0]

I don't think Swift was under NDA at all. The APIs that were released in WWDC were freely allowed to be discussed as explained by this blog post: http://oleb.net/blog/2014/06/apple-lifted-beta-nda/

I guess you can take that to mean any new APIs or changes to the APIs since WWDC were not allowed to be discussed. But then they made Xcode/Swift free to the general public (who had the free dev account).

Was thinking like Lynda.com, codeschool etc - who have mentioned an NDA. Which would cover possibly other things than released in WWDC?

Maybe they were just using it to allow them to launch near GM.

 

[PocketSand11]

I'm assuming Swift is going to completely replace Objective C eventually, so I'm going to start learning it now.

 

[AlecZ]

The language has already evolved a lot during the betas for the better. I wonder what's next for Swift 2.0 or when that will be released. It would be really nice if Apple starts rewriting Cocoa/UIKit using Swift too.

What would be the advantage of rewriting Cocoa in Swift? I was under the impression that it's not better or worse performance-wise, just easier to use and easier to write scalable code with due to its Scala-like functional programming support. I may be wrong. So far, I like it.

 

[paunchy]

"There is really *nothing* like it out there, except Rust. "

This is meaningless nonsense. Scala, Haskell, and F# are all "like it" even more than Rust.

"I've been looking for a production ready systems language"

For what platforms?