Apple is not just updating the IDE here, it is actually updating the language to such and extent that it will break all existing projects -- to the extent they need to give a migration tool rather than just document the changes.
Its great that they are responding so fast and that Chris is in the dev forums. However it just shows how inaccurate a recent AI piece was.
In my testing, so far, there have been very few updates to the Swift Language. Most of the updates by the migration tool address the compiler targets and runtime.
iOS upgrades are one-way, with a bridge returning you to past versions being burned behind it.
As well they should be. Fragmentation is not good for developers or users. In the more than 25 years I’ve been using Macs not once have I had a legitimate reason to downgrade. Of course research about software compatibility and hardware requirements helps a lot. So many just take a flying leap and then are outraged when they get bitten. They don’t have backups so downgrading becomes an impenetrable wall that increases the frustration. Same goes for iOS.
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Amazingly, there's more than 1 new feature that they've introduced recently that doesn't work, or has so many bugs as to be unusable.
I guess you didn't read the 9to5Mac article that said iOS 9 is supposed to be all about optimization and bug fixes.
And that's all great, but really we should't have to wait an entire version to get some the bugs fixed. There are a LOT , at least for Apple.
In my testing, so far, there have been very few updates to the Swift Language. Most of the updates by the migration tool address the compiler targets and runtime.
Please check to see if the new features you mention are addressed in 1.2 and list any that don't work.
iOS upgrades are one-way, with a bridge returning you to past versions being burned behind it.
As well they should be. Fragmentation is not good for developers or users. In the more than 25 years I’ve been using Macs not once have I had a legitimate reason to downgrade. Of course research about software compatibility and hardware requirements helps a lot. So many just take a flying leap and then are outraged when they get bitten. They don’t have backups so downgrading becomes an impenetrable wall that increases the frustration. Same goes for iOS.
If only my standards were as low as yours.