I think Swift came out for the Apple’s desire to make it even more appealing to develop for its platforms. I don’t know over the years how many times I’ve heard people bitching about Objective-C and its “weird” syntax. People couldn’t get over it. Swift makes it easy for all the throngs of Java developer to feel right back at home...
-Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin laur...@nemesys-soft.com <mailto:laur...@nemesys-soft.com> Skype: LaurentDaudelin Logiciels Némésys Software http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ <http://www.nemesys-soft.com/> > On Oct 12, 2019, at 07:35, Richard Charles via Cocoa-dev > <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > > >> On Oct 11, 2019, at 9:09 PM, Kirk Kerekes via Cocoa-dev >> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: >> >> It is my inference that Swift arose out of a perceived need for a language >> that strongly inhibited bad/lazy/sloppy programming practices, and yet >> looked “normal”. > > Here is my take. I think Swift came from the mind of Chris Lattner who showed > it to management and they loved the idea. It was made possible by the power > and flexibility of the LLVM compiler. > > --Richard Charles > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/laurent%40nemesys-soft.com > > This email sent to laur...@nemesys-soft.com _______________________________________________ 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