Apple To Open-Source & Support Linux With Its Swift Programming Language

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Apple To Open-Source & Support Linux With Its Swift Programming Language

Besides announcing OS X El Capitan, Apple announced today from their WWDC event that their Swift programming language will be open-sourced and they intend to support it on Linux too...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-Open-Source-Swift-Lang

[profoundWHALE]

I'm just wondering how it compares with Vulkan...

[bison]

I'm wondering what they're going to do about Cocoa. Big hole in the API there.

[Ancurio]

I'm just wondering how it compares with Vulkan...

Umm.. you're asking how a programming language compares to a graphics API?

[eagleoneraptor]

I'm just wondering how it compares with Vulkan...

I think you want to comment here http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum...metal-graphics

[kalin]

Those new languages look like garbage to me.I will stick with c/c++ until something better pop up

[Ericg]

Those new languages look like garbage to me.I will stick with c/c++ until something better pop up

Rust?

[BSDude]

Those new languages look like garbage to me.I will stick with c/c++ until something better pop up

Is Rust also garbage?

[yzsolt]

I'm not kalin, but I think Rust is still a bit immature. Currently it has only one advantage over C++ and it's the safety. Oh, and its module system (Cargo). Overall it's (sometimes much) slower than C++ (assuming you try to avoid unsafe blocks) and compilation is slower too.
I've got excited about Rust not so long ago but after trying to write real code with it I faced the problems mentioned above AND found the code become more and more unreadable because of Rust's syntax. Yes, the example codes are pretty, but real code is much harder to read and understand than C++, at least for me (tons of apostrophes, underscores, unwrap()s, pubs, fns and impls, etc.)

[Drago]

Yes, the example codes are pretty, but real code is much harder to read and understand than C++, at least for me (tons of apostrophes, underscores, unwrap()s, pubs, fns and impls, etc.)

Exactly what led me to Go.