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Why Apple’s Swift Language Will Instantly Remake Computer Programming

by drakaal on 7/15/14, 4:45 AM with 6 comments

• by andrewchambers on 7/15/14, 5:12 AM

  To be honest, this article is fairly laughable. Swift is vendor locked to the extreme, has a buggy closed source implementation and is no more revolutionary than any other modern language coming out.

  It's only a thing for apple developers.

• by drakaal on 7/15/14, 4:56 AM

  "But even if Swift remains an Apple-only thing, it’s impact could be greater than any other language that has sprung up in recent years, and it may achieve mass adoption faster than any language in modern history. "

  I don't even like Node, but it is hard to imagine that Swift will get adoption faster than Node.

  If 100% of Objective C users switch the adoption could be fast since you'd have a new mature-ish language as the preferred language for a large install base. But I don't see the libraries and modules being there to allow most devs to just switch right away.

• by dang on 7/15/14, 5:07 AM

  This is a dupe. It's a good idea to check before submitting:

  https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Why+Apple%E2%80%99s+Swift+Language...