Yosemite = Swift compiled?

Discussion in 'OS X Yosemite (10.10)' started by walkie, Jun 6, 2014.

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  1. walkie, Jun 6, 2014

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    Hi All, as we all know last monday Apple brought out a new programming language called 'Swift', they said that this language was several times faster than Objective-C, so I'm curious to know whether parts of Yosemite are being compiled in Swift or not, if so maybe this could be translated in a performance gain, so what do guys think about it?
     
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  2. PsykX, Jun 6, 2014

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    I don't think it is. There have been a lot of changes in Yosemite in under a year. It's already a design, programming and engineering marvel. Plus, correct me if I'm wrong, but Swift is iOS-exclusive as of now.
     
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  3. walkie, Jun 6, 2014

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    I'm not sure if Swift is only for iOS, I thought it was for the whole Mac Platform, I know most OS's have C and C++ code underneath but some parts can certainly be coded in any language.
     
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  4. Mr. Retrofire, Jun 6, 2014

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    From https://developer.apple.com/swift/
     
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  5. CyBeRino, Jun 6, 2014

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    You can be pretty sure all of 10.10 is still in either C/C++ (core stuff like kernel and libraries) and Objective C (Cocoa-related things).

    You are most certainly wrong.
     
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  6. ScottishDuck, Jun 7, 2014

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    I would doubt they rewrote the OS or really any of it as yet.

    Will they? Yeah probably. But I would look at the pace of the 64-bit transition, even now parts of the OS have yet to be ported but they are slowly getting there.
     
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  7. whiteonline, Jun 7, 2014

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    Swift was created for more efficient application development.

    Operating systems are generally written in C.
     
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  8. PsykX, Jun 7, 2014

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    Wow, okay ! I knew it would come within next year on OS X, but right now already ? I'm impressed.:eek:
     
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  9. c1phr, Jun 7, 2014

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    You're right, and most of OSX's underlying components that are from the BSD project are in C and Assembly. The higher-level frameworks like Cocoa are all written in Objective-C, and could potentially be candidates for Swift translation.
     
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