Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C...
by greggman3 on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:02PM
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Why is this downvoted? It's a valid question. Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift, has stated many times his goal of Swift being the best language for all uses.
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Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C...
by OJFord on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:55PM
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Maybe one guy's goal isn't the same as 100% corporate buy-in.
Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C...
by Dahoon on Saturday March 21, 2020 @07:38AM
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Either you misquote him or he has no idea what he is talking about. Maybe in a walled garden as Apple's it could come pretty close in many instances but One Language To Rule Them All is naive at best.
Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C...
by ksec on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:39AM
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>Either you misquote him......
Not parent but no, I wish that was the case, he stated it numerous times and he compare it to scaling from Low Level C to Javascript. That was 3 - 4 years ago.
I was extremely sceptical of it because it was unrealistic, that is of course very much against the silicon valley optimistic view so it wasn't a popular opinion. But in a recent interview he has definitely rephrase and said it doesn't need to be the best in everything.
Now I have another problem, It is not the best at anything, what is it actually good at?
That is why I still think Objective-c is going stay for at least a few more years.