OT: This Swift thing

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le jeudi 5 juin 2014 10:14:15 UTC+2, Alain Ketterlin a écrit :
> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> writes:
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> > Dear Apple,
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> > Why should I be exited about an illegitmate child of Python, Go and
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> > JavaScript?
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> [...]
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> Type safety. (And with it comes better performance ---read battery
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> life--- and better static analysis tools, etc.) LLVM (an Apple-managed
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> project) for the middle- and back-end, and a brand new front-end
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> incorporating a decent type system (including optional types for
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> instance).
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> Swift's memory management is similar to python's (ref. counting). Which
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> makes me think that a subset of python with the same type safety would
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> be an instant success.
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About type. A very quick look at the doc and at what is
interesting me.

"A string [type] is an ordered collection of characters [type], such..."

[]: my addendum

It seems they are understanding unicode (zeroth order approximation).

jmf