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Looks like they've learned a lot from Haskell (but with none of the parts of Haskell that force you to construct things purely).

Looking forward to the Lambda the Ultimate discussions on this new language.
Now where to read some code examples, they may say its better but until I read some code I remain unconvinced (still anything sounds better than Objective-C)
Swift (programming language)
You might prefer to drive the shorter distance, but that's not a realistic option. Car-centric infrastructure tends to take up a lot of space. The wide multi-lane streets and seas of parking lots you get in communities where driving is the primary mode of transportation massively increase the amount of land area needed to provide the same amount of services, which in turn greatly increases the actual distance being covered. Last time I lived in the 'burbs, the nearest grocery store was 5 miles away, and accessible only by roads with speed limits of 45mph+. Walking or riding a bike to buy a loaf of bread simply wasn't an option.

Whereas part of the reason why it's common for people to not own cars (or own fewer than one car per adult household member) in more walkable communities is that it's simply not practical - cars take up a lot of space that can't be used for other things, and making a community dense enough to permit easy walkability doesn't leave a lot of space left over the swaths of 200 square feet that it takes to temporarily store a car that isn't currently being driven. So the laws of supply and demand place those spaces at a premium.
The keynote says it uses the Objective-C runtime and it compiles to native code -- so one would imagine that it's compatible with older devices and versions. But that is no guarantee.
Swift was the biggest announcement today. Looking forward to it.
The Swift Programming Language by Apple Inc.
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Ugh, not available in Canada. Way to kill my excitement, Apple.

Edit: Canadian link worked! Sorry Apple.
In 2 years when they announce iOS X (10), I expect that will be when apps can only be loaded from the App Store and their vertical integration will be complete.
The extensions for apps look very promising. I don't think Android intents provide this kind of deep integration between apps. But I would wait for some one to confirm that part.
How is ⌘` buggy?
>"Plus, it also knows who you’re talking to, which is crazy. By knowing who you’re talking to, it will send up predictions that are right for the type of conversation you have with that particular person."

This is a bit scary... This means that Apple not only knows who I talk to but now actually maintain an index on how I talk with everyone. 1984 is getting closer and closer.
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I mean the inclusion of Python, seems so random to me

It's supposed to be a "mainstream" scripting language. Also, it's an easy way for them to get favorable numbers for their presentation.
Not sure. They said apps with Swift code would be accepted once iOS 8 was released, so possibly not.
I read your parent as a joke! The title can be read the same as the Mitch Hedberg joke: "I haven't slept for 10 days...because that would be too long."

This has never "stopped for 174 years"...because that would be too long.
It's neither weird nor pointless. They're going for something that is as comfortable to work with as modern dynamic languages, for something that eschews the cruft of ObjC. Python is simply a very popular representative for this type of language.

Of course, it's an easy target. But I can see why they went for it.
I wonder how that translates into applications? They just showed the menu bar and dock go dark unless I missed something.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/swift-programming-language/...

Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7835217
Apple Swift
It just became available in the US ibook store

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-programming-language/...
What issue do you usually have when you use ⌘+`? I haven't had any problems.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/swift-programming-language/...
I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with the amount of stuff they've packed into iOS 8. Looks like it'll be more than enough to easily rip me away from jailbroken iOS 7.
And eclipsed in many areas.

The integration between desktop and phone is pretty powerful.
Apple has a new programming language called Swift, 'and it totally rules'
Runtime speed is only tangentially related to the fact that they are compiled ahead of time or not.

I guess the comparison with Python is that Swift code looks more like Python than C.
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I'm not even an iOS developer but this is by far the most exciting thing I heard in the keynote.

As an amatuer/hobbyist programmer who's self-taught with Ruby, JavaScript, etc., the one thing that was keeping me from experimenting with iOS apps was Objective-C. I know I could tackle it, but it's been hard to take the plunge.

I don't know much about Swift yet, but from what I've seen it looks very exciting. So if Apple's goal was to get new devs into the iOS world, at least from 10k feet, it's working.

I'm excited!
They're going to wonder what the hell happened.
Great!!!!! i never liked Objective-C anyways
It just worked for me, but its down now. The link is here: https://developer.apple.com/swift/
Most sites and most apps don't need five 9s, and I doubt that OP is saying that a single machine is going to give anyone that.
How great would Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday be? This great.
Apple Launches Swift, A New Programming Language For Writing iOS And OS X Apps
Does this one work for Canada?

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/swift-programming-language/...
Yes. But what has that got to do with writing native apps?
HomeKit
So they copied this idea for the IDE?

http://www.lighttable.com
What kind of benchmark produced 220 times something faster than Python? My guess is that they did it on a mobile device and used an application like this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/python-2.7-for-ios/id4857298...
Actually the Swift website is down, too, overwhelmed by everyone searching for the Apple flavour.
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Well, LightTable was inspired by Bret Victor's ideas. He worked at Apple earlier.
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Swift has also pattern matching which I think is really awesome.
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It has everything to do with modern languages with powerful features.
Seems a lot more like a call back to the Smalltalk roots of Objective-C.
> More importantly an ostrich can do 45 MPH which is far faster than this.

It's also much larger. I imagine once they scale this up, it'll go even faster.

Can you imagine how frightening it would be to be chased by one of these things?
Maybe I'll pickup iOS dev, do you still have to have an mac to dev?
The demo from the WWDC keynote is quite impressive. Unfortunately, this site seems to have been slashdotted. (Basically, Swift is "Apple acquires their own LightTable.") It's touted as a language for parallelism. I'm curious about its concurrency primitives. Since distribution is shown as a top feature, I'm going to guess that it has an Erlang-like actor model.

Having ARC and not needing GC will end up being a big fundamental advantage for its parallelism story. (The problem with GC, is that one thread does work, then a GC thread comes along and possibly causes an additional cache miss.)
He mentioned the desire to drop the "C" from objective-c, but I'm curious what this means for using c/c++ libraries now. Do they need to be wrapped by objective-c before being visible in swift?
This isn't Apple Swift from what I can tell. Looks like another language, right? Cached version here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Expect health devices to be the new hot space for the next few years.

Yes Apple will have an iWatch but they would be more than happy having hundreds of dirt cheap equivalents that integrate seamlessly with the iPhone.
"...we wondered what we could do without the baggage of C."

Is that tongue in cheek? It's not even a particularly large, encumbered language, C.
I can see a reason: it's gunning for the mindshare of the kind of developers who like the features in Python. But you're right that performing faster than Objective-C tells you what you need to know, and showing the Python comparison first was just showmanship.

I would have been interested in a JavaScript comparison, which I'm sure we'll be seeing from third parties soon.
best part, one of this swift's authors is called wozniak

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Qvltqf...
Looks like C# with .NET Native, some sort of.

Playground is interesting.
It's a comparison of how fast they made a dynamically typed language. (Yes, Objective-C is considered dynamically typed as well.)
The Swift Parallel Scripting Language (2013)
Yeh, I loved the health demo they did showing the Mayo Clinic app. Problem is that unless my local doctor integrates with it I'm never going to get to use most of this stuff. I think it's particularly going to be a problem outside the US where there are public systems. We might start missing out on these kinds of innovations and it's the sort of thing that would tempt me to go private (not the entire system, just personally).

Edit: spelling
Looks a lot like golang meets haskell:

func makeIncrementer() -> (Int -> Int)

EDIT: Why the downvotes? was just an observation not a criticism. Looking forward to using it instead of Objective-C.
I'm in the same boat, currently teaching myself ruby/rails during lunch breaks from my job in the hopes of finding a better one.

What I use personally is a Chromebook. Yes, it is Chrome OS, but I've been doing all of my tutorials and basic apps this way and I really enjoy it.

You will need to look into Crouton which establishes a chroot of a Linux environment: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton. Once you have this all set up, you can just run the Linux environment as a shell prompt. This allows you to use a text editor such as Caret (great free sublime clone that works as an extension), and test your app locally on ChromeOS.

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For example, within the chrome tab that includes my Linux terminal, I can run 'rails new sampleapp', then 'rails s' and open up localhost:3000 where my local rails app displays. I can modify the project directory in caret and push to git using again the Linux terminal. Sorry if I rambled on, I just really enjoy that setup on a $200 laptop.
Glad to hear. Alfred is a lifesaver.
The Swift Programming Language Book
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It would be nice to be able to switch between full screen windows with the keyboard.
I think they were thinking about this even earlier:
http://vimeo.com/36579366
Swift looks a lot like a scripting/dynamic programming language. For e.g. this is a complete Swift program:

println("Hello")

I think the idea was that Swift will be as easy to code as Python and faster than Objective-C.
Looks like they pulled a Golang: http://swift-lang.org
The Windows XP start button is not equivalent to the NT6.0/6.1 start button.

Personally, I found the Start button in Vista to be a far better app launcher than Spotlight at the time.
I spent a lot of time trying to do stuff with ObjectiveC, but just hated the syntax. That's been the biggest thing keeping me from developing Mac OSX apps; I just prefer Ruby's simplicity. I'm going to seriously give Swift a try.
> Inpatient and outpatient EHRs all target Windows

I believe this is primarily because the development environment is really simple for this class of software. Platforms such as .NET, COM, MFC and VB have been around a long time and it's easy to find programmers. It also doesn't hurt that the desktops running Windows are incredibly inexpensive and easy to procure and run Microsoft Windows.

But targeting the end users of healthcare (e.g. patients)... that's something else entirely which only recently has started to have any traction.
> Looking for the Swift parallel scripting language? Please visit http://swift-lang.org

Did they not know or do they just not care?
Really excited and surprised by this announcement. Anyone know the provenance of this language? Who built it, what are its intellectual roots?
swift-lang.org mentioned at the bottom of the page seems to be down.
Never mind that there already was a language called Swift. I really hope they trademarked or copyrighted the name, but it seems unlikely - they'll probably just get steam-rollered and forgotten.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jif/swift/doc/index.html
https://github.com/shawncplus/ranviermud Its a super basic MUD written in Node. It has some telnet libraries you might want to take a look at.
Looks like Recruiters will now be seeking Swift Developers with at least 5+ years of experience.
Microwave link is the way to go. There may be a local small company that already has towers in place on a hill or something. I'm in rural Montana and can get 40 Mb/s, no caps, low ping. Get the latest generation of radios with the small (<12") dish if you can as they are much less effected by wind etc.
Maybe http://workflowy.com --- the pro version gets you unlimited items when the free one has a maximum monthly limit.
Fair enough. The point I was really going for was that affordable housing in high-density cores typically mean that you're in a "gentrifying" if not outright hostile neighborhood. When I had a child I quickly decided I wanted to let him play outside - and I can't teach a toddler the difference between a junkie and a postman.
They did a demo call with Dr. Dre. They didn't showing switching a call between devices. I did notice a video button on the call on the Mac suggesting you might be able to switch from audio to video (presumably FaceTime).
Google Runs All Software In Containers
No love for Thompson Sampling?
This will revolutionize programming education.

Interestingly enough, the time manipulation in Swift was inspired by a game called Braid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)) released back in 2009.

This will help young programmers solidify the connection between giving the computer logical commands and what is outputted on the screen immediately.

Reminds me of how excited I was when Processing (http://www.processing.org/) was released which made it dead simple to interact with a screen and graphics. Didn't have live feedback, but it made it incredible easy to understand OOP.
The previous accelerator was good. They helped raise some decent money after their initial injection of money. Mentors were great too and the connections we built were useful. It has hard to know if this one will be better.

That is interesting that you wouldn't recommend and accelerator if you don't have PMF. Most start-ups that get into accelerators seem like they do not have PMF (judging from their website). However, I do see your point as you won't make the most use of your time.
"When Apple announced Swift at WWDC, it got the largest cheer out of the developer audience than any other single feature." :D Sigh of relief!
I think the lawyers decided that they didn't need to care...
Start with 3.

The libraries are not that big of a problem, and since you plan to start with it, chances are you probably won't even have a need to use these libraries anyway (you don't have any existing codebase that relies on 2.x or these libraries).

The language is much cleaner in version 3 and from what I read and my personal experience it is much easier to make code written for version 3 work with 2.7 than the other way.
I think it's the most popular obj-c/cocoa binding.
This is probably the biggest announcement from a developer perspective. Swift looks like a language in which you can code as fast as you code in languages like Ruby or Python, while having the speed and performance of a language like Objective-C.
It seemed like it could interoperate with C just fine based on the slide talking about all three. Also because it uses the Objective-C runtime and compiles to native, it might just see C functions as normal functions. Though what little I've looked at the free book hasn't given me any hints about that yet.
I cannot be any happier that they did.
This is blog post 1 out of 3. The second is all about Thompson Sampling, and should be coming out on Friday =)
I'm in the UK and this link is working for me, but the one posted earlier with "gb" in the URL isn't.
Your other post is dead, just FYI. The filters will kill duplicate posts from the same user (within a time period?)even if under different threads.
not even Swift?
Swift doesn't seem to have anything to do with the parallel language at swift-lang.org. In any case, reference counting is disastrous for the parallelism story. GC thread coming along and causing an additional cache miss is way better than having to do atomic operations on reference counts all the time.
It's an unrelated language that is being hammered by all the people Googling "swift programming language"
New language runs on Obj-C runtime. Maybe apps written in Swift can run smoothly on existing OS.
HealthKit and HomeKit are both really exciting (probably going to look at smartlocks now in particular). However, I'm easily most excited about being able to leave a group text.
Link to the EBOOK on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/book/swift-programming-language/...
“You also don’t need to write semicolons at the end of every statement.”

Please. Please. PLEASE don't be whitespace delimited!
Still on an Objective-C runtime, so it's hard to see how the performance gains they claim are achievable, but otherwise having an interpreted version should be good for productivity.
Apple's Swift [.. focus on speed and ease of use
[Book link](https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/swift-programming-language/...)