[OT] Apple introduces Swift as Objective-C sucessor

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 04:23:47PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 6/2/2014 3:49 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> >On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:45:28 -0400, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>More information now made available
> >>
> >>https://developer.apple.com/swift/
> >
> >"Memory is managed automatically, and you don’t even need to type
> >semi-colons."
> >
> >...
> >
> 
> Heh, yea, that's the #1 thing that jumped out at me as well. Sounds
> like it probably sums up a lot about the language.
> 
> The whole thing sounds like "We love how JS and Python allow mediocre
> programmers to churn out bad software quickly, but since we *are*
> Apple and love strategic lock-in just as much as MS, here's our own
> goofy version of the exact same thing that we're going to push
> instead."

Seems everyone is fixating on semicolons, but seriously, am I the only
one who sees the elephant in the room? Automatic memory management!!!
Where's Manu and his GC tirades when you need him? ;-)


T

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