Posted on 06/02/2014 5:53:12 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
Apple's new programming language Swift promises to be easier and faster to code with and more secure.
Swift promises to blaze past Objective-C and Python, with complex object sort 3.9 times faster and RC4 encryption 220 times faster than Python. Federighi promised that developers simply won't be able to make entire classes of errors that currently plague them, even though code written in Swift will be able to run alongside current Objective-C code.
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I checked, and with a free dev account, no I can’t, at least not as of this morning. I do have a friend who’s a registered iOS developer, though, maybe I can get the Xcode beta from her.
“I checked, and with a free dev account, no I can’t, at least not as of this morning.”
That’s odd, it was there when I looked earlier, and I’m also on a free account. It’s not on the app store, you have to log in to the developer area. I’ll post the link later.
Apparently it's possible: Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules
Code, structure, sequence, and API organization entitled to copyright protection.
Yes, I went to the OS X developer site, Xcode 5.1 but not 6.0 beta. Maybe the iOS site?
Waiting for the first Job Rec that asks for five years of experience in Swift Programming.
No, that page has links that take me right back to the same page I was at, which allows me to download Xcode 5.1.1 (which I already have), but not the 6.0 beta, which requires paid developer access. Tried the OS X and iOS links, same net result.
“No, that page has links that take me right back to the same page I was at, which allows me to download Xcode 5.1.1 (which I already have), but not the 6.0 beta, which requires paid developer access. Tried the OS X and iOS links, same net result.”
Whoops, sorry, didn’t look hard enough at the links there. I’ll have to check it out later.
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