Apple launches developer blog for new Swift programming language

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  • Reply 21 of 29
    slurpyslurpy Posts: 5,395member

    Awesome. Moves like this will encourage even more developer support. This is the right approach to take. It's pretty incredible where Apple was a few years ago, compared to where they are now, when it comes to developers. 

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  • Reply 22 of 29
    dick applebaumdick applebaum Posts: 12,527member
    "It generates very fast code," said Tom, [B][I]Swiftly.[/I][/B]
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  • Reply 23 of 29
    elijahgelijahg Posts: 2,888member
    solipsismx wrote: »
    I've been using a Menu Bar-based RSS app for many years. It not what I would call a great app in terms of the developers' abilities but it's exactly the type of un-intrusive yet always in view RSS app that I want.

    Oh that's pretty nice, thanks for that.
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  • Reply 24 of 29
    "It generates very fast code," said Tom, Swiftly.

    Ohh... you're showing you age with that one, Tom said revealingly...
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  • Reply 25 of 29
    mr omr o Posts: 1,046member

    Apple should modify the Swift bird app logo.

     

    Right now it looks like the bird is crashing down.

     

    It'd be better to make it fly up from the bottom left to the up right corner.

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  • Reply 26 of 29
    slurpyslurpy Posts: 5,395member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by mr O View Post

     

    Apple should modify the Swift bird app logo.

     

    Right now it looks like the bird is crashing down.

     

    It'd be better to make it fly up from the bottom left to the up right corner.


     

    That's what I said to myself a second after they revealed the logo. Design is nice, but orientation seems wrong. 

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  • Reply 27 of 29
    michael scripmichael scrip Posts: 1,916member
    mr o wrote: »
    Apple should modify the Swift bird app logo.

    Right now it looks like the bird is crashing down.

    It'd be better to make it fly up from the bottom left to the up right corner.

    slurpy wrote: »
    That's what I said to myself a second after they revealed the logo. Design is nice, but orientation seems wrong. 

    Hey guys... birds fly up and down.

    Maybe the bird is swooping down to catch some prey... swiftly.

    :D
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  • Reply 28 of 29
    misamisa Posts: 827member
    What do you think is released for Objective-C in LLVM/Clang? They need to incubate this within the community for standards and get it prime time seeing as they plan on making it the defacto for OS X and iOS. LLVM/Clang ObjC isn't the GNU ObjC Runtime.
    If they give the community too much leverage, it will become a mess like Javascript as it goes form being elegant to "this isn't C++ enough, let's make it harder to use so no newbies will not want to use it" that has happened to Javascript, Perl, and PHP

    I prefer C, there's nothing terribly wrong with OBJC, or C++, but I find there is a lot of "OOP for the sake of OOP" and not OOP because it makes sense in many projects. This is why you see frameworks layered upon frameworks, because nobody likes how anyone else codes, so they wrap the frameworks they are using first with their own preferred style.

    Hell I've seen this happen to my own code multiple times, which is why I don't care too much for politically charged(eg GPL) open source projects.
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  • Reply 29 of 29
    mr o wrote: »
    Apple should modify the Swift bird app logo.

    Right now it looks like the bird is crashing down.

    It'd be better to make it fly up from the bottom left to the up right corner.

    I think the reason that the swift is pictures as flying downward is because it hunts insects from above.
    Swifts are the most aerial of birds. Larger species are amongst the fastest fliers in the animal kingdom, with the white-throated needletail having been reported flying at up to 169 km/h (105 mph).[6] Even the common swift can cruise at a maximum speed of 31 metres per second (112 km/h, 70 mph). In a single year the common swift can cover at least 200,000 km.[7]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift
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