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What's New in Swift 4

by astigsen on 9/28/17, 5:05 PM with 33 comments

• by melling on 9/28/17, 6:46 PM

  Swift has evolved quickly, and it has finally been large adopted by the iOS community:

  https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

  What’s missing is non-Apple adoption. I’m hoping Swift becomes an acceptable/competive option on other platforms.

• by binaryapparatus on 9/28/17, 7:04 PM

  I really tried couple of times to use swift in production. One of my MAS apps is pure swift. However I can't force myself to like it. Maybe I am missing some brilliant part of it that I missed but I just can't love it.

• by euyyn on 9/28/17, 7:21 PM

  > Swift 4 is the release that says, “We need to stabilize the source code.”

  Stabilizing source code doesn't have any meaning that I know of. But the updates to the language and library are good!

  Looking forward to what they come up with regarding ownership semantics.

• by agumonkey on 9/28/17, 8:01 PM

  since they're keen on intervals I wonder if they'll provide interval algebra

      if a..b ∩ ..<c: