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Swift programming language reaches GM status for iOS
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The Swift programming language has attained gold master status for iOS, Apple has announced. "You can now submit your apps that use Swift to the App Store. Whether your app uses Swift for a small feature or a complete application, now is the time to share your app with the world. It's your turn to excite everyone with your new creations," the company adds.
For OS X, however, Swift is only slated to hit GM status once Yosemite ships sometime this fall. Developers are encouraged to keep working on Mac apps with Swift via a beta of Xcode 6.1.
Apple notes that despite the language having achieved some measure of completion, it plans to continue making improvements to features, performance, and syntax. At the same time, apps using the Swift GM runtime should be supported into the future.
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Swift is exactly what Apple needs to speed adoption of iOS and get more developers onboard. Anyone who has developed in Objective-C knows that it produces ugly and overly-verbose code (sometimes naming functions ridiculous things like NSgetMutableVectorValuesOfMembersWithoutAssociativ eKeys might help in English, but it certainly doesn't help in coding) that is a semi-throwback to the C++ days. It certainly is a turn-off to many developers, who abandon or avoid the native language altogether and just use C# through Mono or some such code-translation thing.
Swift greatly reduces the complexity of the syntax of the code and is a much more "readable" language to develop in. It's kind of like desktop-class Javascript with a few enhancements, and all the benefits of being a compiled language rather than a slower interpreted language.
Dunno about other developers, but Swift is the bee's knees from what I've seen.
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Because I just love going through code with function and variable names that are like 4 letter acronyms or abbreviations or, even worse, just generic, because they're too lazy to write readable code that others can read and understand as well.
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That... doesn't describe Swift at all as a language, and is a problem among every computer language with someone inexperienced or lazy or apathetic behind the keyboard.
You're talking about the idiots using the language to write code, not the programming language itself.
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