Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer

Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by smackfu on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:15PM (#7837779)

They did announce they would not guarantee source compatibility until after the release date. So the language will likely change a bit still.

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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by chc on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:21PM (#7837794)

Huh, I must have missed that. That's definitely contrary to the message most of their stuff is putting out, which is "Go ahead and and use it to write applications." Thanks for pointing that out.

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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by mitchty on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:34PM (#7837841)

There is a context you're missing. Use it sure, but be ready for them to change things prior to GA.

This happens pretty often in their betas. First few iterations of even new frameworks can end up doing vastly different things than later versions.

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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by e28eta on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @01:53AM (#7838352)

And promised converters for any source changes necessary. I expect it'll be similar to the Convert to ARC and Objective-C Literals Menu items in Xcode.

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