Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future

Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by coldtea on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:48PM (#8626901)

>By now, you may be asking yourself why we would choose to use such nascent languages in a production environment.

No, we realy are not. If anything, both are quite safe bets.

Swift had been in secret development for years and came out almost fully formed (as far as languages go), with a full API, tooling, documentation, etc. Besides it's the Apple blessed way to do things on iOS going forward.

As for Go, everybody and its dog are using it for production, left and right. Including very big names. It's pretty much a given that the language is already production-proven, and will do well in the future.

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Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by rgovind on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @06:54PM (#8627213)

>>Full API, tooling, documentation, etc. Besides it's the Apple blessed way to do things on iOS going forward.

Full API? I believe apart from xcode, there are no developer tools or no examples of parser API. Am I missing something?

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Re:Swift and Go: Building a Fast Future by coldtea on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @11:55PM (#8628354)

By "full API" I mean the Cocoa libraries it ties to, not some API for messing with the language (AST stuff etc).

As for developer tools, they have an IDE, a compiler, a debugger, a UI designer, the "code playground" thing, etc. That most of those are (also) embedded in XCode doesn't change much.

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