> On Jun 13, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Paul Scott <psc...@skycoast.us> wrote: > > Swift insinuates itself into the developer community with typical grandiose > marketing hype. But what practical value does it really offer? What failing, > besides a distaste of Objective-C by some — excluding myself — required a > whole new— really, a mishmash of other languages — programming language? > Further, what does Swift offer to those outside the Apple developer community > that would motivate them to adopt an open source Swift? At best, the answer > appears to be, “Not much.”
Bingo. Even after reading all the posts in this thread, I still don’t know what problem Swift addresses, and no one seems to be able to answer that question — not even Apple in its marketing hype. When I saw what ObjC had to offer over & above using just straight C, I was floored by the potential, and I haven’t been disappointed. It seems to me a near-perfect and quite pragmatic fit, especially for Apple development. The key here is “pragmatic”. It pretty much fits hand-in-glove with all aspects of modern software development (not just for Apple devices), especially with the recent (evolutionary) extensions to support ARC, GCD, blocks, and the like. Seriously, I still don’t understand what Swift is all about. Maybe it’s just me but I can’t get past the feel that it’s an unoriginal mish-mash of poor ingredients (python, Ruby, C#, etc.) If it were clearly a major step forward, evolutionary or revolutionary, I think I would be seeing it by now. -Carl _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
