On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Benjamin Striegel <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to also note that Apple has no external incentive to improve Swift. > Objective-C was a dead language before Apple's fiat rocketed it into the > position of world's third-most-popular programming language. Regardless of > Swift's implementation or design decisions, it *will* be one of the most > popular languages in the world come this time next year (likely accompanied > by Objective-C's meteoric descent). If Swift were a fusion of RPG and > Malbolge with an implementation written in INTERCAL, this fact would not > change (thankfully, the Swift designers have better taste). Why bother > straining yourself to satisfy a captive audience, when your only real > competitor is whatever dialect of Java that Dalvik supports?
For one thing, Swift ought to be an appealing potential competitor for Apple's internal high-performance frameworks, which are currently all C++. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
