Did apple shoot themselves in the foot with this? It seems like the majority of the hype was killed off because Apple keeps breaking compatibility with older versions.
Did apple shoot themselves in the foot with this...
Noah Smith
Austin Reed
No really just swift become ghetto Apple,outside no developer will programming for it.
Jack Adams
Swift is the fastest growing programming language there is. This thread is garbage.
Christian Johnson
Justin Perez
IOS and MacOS development simply isn't hype driven.
The developers are not like hyperactive web developers who can't use software that's older than a month because that's already deprecated and because the newest meme.js framework, the newest, even more confusing, yet less efficient, slower, less powerful module bundler and some new CSS framework that literally adds 3 seconds to first paint on mobile 3g devices are just so appealing.
Breaking compatibility with older versions isn't that bad because for the most part apple made it easy to upgrade. It's better to dare to break compatibility early to fix the language than to keep those mistakes around forever. Otherwise you end up like PHP.
Anthony Sanders
Nice autism
Noah Ortiz
Object C was fastest growing programming language per years and nobody use it outside Apple ghetto.
Swift had same fate.
Aiden Perry
>keeps breaking compatibility with older versions
That's what happens when people who don't know what they are doing decide to make "yet another programming language".
Jaxon Sullivan
based post
Josiah Rogers
ITT: A retard who didn't suffer upgrading from Swift 1 through 3.
Swift 3 to 4 isn't bad, and Swift 4 is getting ABI stability, so this mess will end soon. Essentially we were beta-testing for Apple up until 4, which is as per usual when dealing with Apple.
Jack Diaz
Swift is a pretty decent language with good performance. Miles better than Java.
Ian Scott
it's not hype driven because iOS and macOS developers have no choice but to use whatever Apple makes available
Aiden Martin
github.com
>3x slower than Java and Kotlin
Jackson Bennett
well yeah you have to disable all the safety checks to get any performance out of it, but who needs those?
Camden Lopez
my bad, it's just 2.5x slower on macOS
Grayson Hall
disabling safety checks makes no difference. wtf I hate swift now.
Colton Anderson
Swift doesn't need to bear every language just objC which was always slow ass
Gabriel Thomas
Swift is basically Rust but with the borrow checker replaced with old-fashioned garbage collection, right?
Tyler Collins
That's the problem, it's changing too fast.
Jordan Russell
Swift isn't as hardcore as Rust, and wouldn't be suitable for low level things because it does too much hand-holding. Its garbage collection is just automatic reference counting. It doesn't have GC passes or anything.
Jace Wilson
youtu.be
ABI stability in swift 5
Carson Thomas
If you were to believe Apple and the Apple Fanbase, everyone (even your grandmother) is churning out iOS and mac apps with swift and it's so good it solves world hunger.
Logan Perry
Just because Creator Swift get out Apple for Tesla and get BTFO by Tesla, change to Google and now want use Swift for TF don’t add Swift full ecosystem from ML or Deeplearning.
Ryder Thomas
is this a markov chain or are you a stroke victim?