Re:Whither Swift?
by rdsnsca on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:18PM
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There is a thread on the old Apple Swift forum that addresses why they like Swift. Its an old post from 2014 called : Why Swift? And why now?. You will need at least a free developer account to be able to log in and see it.
"13 of the security issues fixed in 10.9.4 could have been prevented or mitigated by Swift (9 buffer overruns, 2 int under/overflows, 2 null derefs). That alone makes it worth it from my point of view.
As for performance, that's a work in progress but is improving rapidly; Swift is already faster than ObjC in some cases."
https://devforums.apple.com/message/986257#986257
"13 of the security issues fixed in 10.9.4 could have been prevented or mitigated by Swift (9 buffer overruns, 2 int under/overflows, 2 null derefs). That alone makes it worth it from my point of view.
As for performance, that's a work in progress but is improving rapidly; Swift is already faster than ObjC in some cases."