Swift does away with pointers == pervasive ARC

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 15:16:44 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> Have I missed something, or is this a demonstration that it is
> actually practical?

All performance tests so far says Swift is slower than 
Objective-C, which is slow to begin with, but it is still in Beta.

I don't think you are supposed to do signal processing in Swift, 
most apps can be done with higher level/script-like programming 
and leave the performance sensitive part to the rich iOS 
frameworks.