Apple Launches Swift Programming Language for Writing OS X and iOS Apps
At WWDC 2014 Apple come with new iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite operating systems. But thats not all. Apple really surprised us by launching new Swift Programming Language. Swift seems to be poised to replace Objective-C as the main programming language on Apple�s platforms. This programming language will use the same LLVM compiler and runtime as Apple�s Objective-C implementation.
Some of the highlights of the language according to Apple
- Generics
- Structs that support methods, extensions, protocols.
- Tuples and multiple return values
- Closures (similar to blocks in C and Objective-C) unified with function pointers
- Fast and concise iteration over a range or collection
- Functional programming patterns, e.g.: map and filter
If you are a developer then you can download this Book and read about that programming language.
