[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:45:28 -0400, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 19:19:27 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Just thought it would be nice to give a heads up about Apple's plans to  
>> replace Objective-C in the long run.
>>
>> The language was presented today at the WWDC Keynote, looks like Ruby,  
>> uses ARC alongside the Objective-C runtime.
>>
>> http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-wwdc-2014-keynote/
>>
>> It also has a nice REPL experience, similar to Python's worksheets in  
>> IPython.
>>
>> --
>> Paulo
>
> More information now made available
>
> https://developer.apple.com/swift/

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...

-Steve