On Jun 13, 2015, at 15:33 , Maxthon Chan <m...@maxchan.info> wrote: > > Swift is, technically, a dialect of Objective-C with some syntactic sugar and > compile-time checks allowing some more advanced programming techniques.
It’s not a dialect of Obj-C because it can express constructs that are not representable in Obj-C. That is, the differences go beyond syntax. > how will Apple support Swift on Linux? If you compile Swift code without importing Foundation, then none of the Obj-C runtime stuff is available. I’d imagine that Swift on Linux would be about the same, although perhaps there will be a standard Linux library that contains things that Linux programs normally use (e.g. standard I/O, which is not in the Swift standard library). Or perhaps Apple will leave it to 3rd parties to provide the standard Linux library support. _______________________________________________ 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
