On Apple's Love Affair with Swift

Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by thosakwe on Saturday August 11, 2018 @08:48AM (#17739472)

Why JavaScript, out of all languages in the world?

I don’t think that’s a particularly great choice.

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by tabs_masterrace on Saturday August 11, 2018 @01:22PM (#17740600)

Javascript is just a platform to run transcompiled stuff on these days, not unlike the name giver's JVM

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by jmpt on Saturday August 11, 2018 @09:53AM (#17739660)

Large headcount of developers. Everybody and their dog does Javascript.

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by DannyBee on Saturday August 11, 2018 @03:19PM (#17741102)

If that's your metric, java has many more developers (millions more, in fact).

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by scarface74 on Saturday August 11, 2018 @01:34PM (#17740644)

There are all sorts of optimizations that are much harder to do in a non statically typed language. There are also all types of guaranteed safe automated refactoring you can do with a statically type language. I shutter to think about using a non type safe language with a large code base.

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by AsyncAwait on Saturday August 11, 2018 @09:58AM (#17739679)

Us holdouts would like to have somewhere left to run to too.

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by izacus on Saturday August 11, 2018 @11:14AM (#17739958)

So by that metric, Java is a significantly better choice still ;)

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