Apple launches new programming language ‘Swift’
Not content with unveiling the new OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 operating systems, Apple has unveiled a new programming language dubbed Swift.
Designed for the nine million registered Apple developers, Swift is being tipped as ‘Objective C, without the C’.
Blowing Apple’s trumpet a little bit, he added: “Swift is fast, it is modern, it is designed for safety and it enables a level of interactivity in development that you’ve never seen on a platform.”
Detailing some of the base benefits of the new Swift programming language, Federighi highlighted a number of features, with speed and its modern nature being tipped as the core benefits.
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“Swift is also modern with features like Closures, Generics, Type inference, multiple return types and Namespaces.”
Native to the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, Swift will used to develop iOS 8 apps and Swift developed apps will be able to be submitted as soon as the new iOS 8 platform launches this autumn.
What’s more, in a bid to ease devs into the new language, Swift will be compatible with some existing languages.
“Your Swift code can sit right alongside your Object C and C code within the same applications,” Federighi stated.
He added: “Swift also enables a dynamism and level of interactivity never seen before that we call Playgrounds.”
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