The only feature in Swift that is useful for me so far is its ability to be executed like a script using its REPL feature. And to use it I need Swift being open source.
Things will go off topic beyond this point. I always had an Objective-C Web framework (not a WebObjects revival, but a more “modern” Web framework like ASP.net, while retaining Cocoa programming paradigms) idea that was always hitting barriers when coming to how to execute code within the WIB files (Web Interface Builder - WIB - get it?). Now with Swift I can transform WIB into Swift REPL, and then execute it like a script to get the resulting page. Before this the only method I can think of is not to allow direct code in the WIB files but to mirror some programming language’s features using special views, and have delegate methods and target actions linking back to the controller code. Or maybe I should still do that to better reflect the Cocoa programming model? > On Jun 16, 2015, at 04:20, Sean McBride <s...@rogue-research.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 23:51:42 -0700, Britt Durbrow said: > >> Swift is too immature to warrant doing anything serious with it yet… > > I've stayed away from it for that reason basically. When Xcode x+1 can't > even compile code that builds in Xcode x, I'm not too interested (except for > toy projects). Yeah, I know there's a code migrator, but then god help you > if Xcode x.y+1 has some regression and you need to go back to x.y, which has > happened to me more times than I care to count. > > Some stability in the language is needed before I use it for big/serious > projects. > >> Personally, if I had the time to dedicate to it, I’d come up with some >> non-critical project (i.e, something not “serious”, but big enough to >> qualify as “non-trivial") to do in Swift for the purpose of developing >> that skill set. > > Exactly. In my case, the new automated UI testing in Xcode 7 looks like the > perfect opportunity to write some initial Swift code. > > The open sourcing of Swift is also vital. I wouldn't use it otherwise. > There are just too many great tools in the llvm ecosystem that would be > excluded otherwise. Things like clang-format, address sanitizer, etc that > all support Obj-C thanks to it being in clang (otherwise those tools would > only support C/C++ I'm sure). > > Cheers, > > -- > ____________________________________________________________ > Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com > Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com > Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/max%40maxchan.info > > This email sent to m...@maxchan.info
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