Apple shifts from Objective C to Swift
Apple announced a new programming language yesterday at its yearly developer conference. With improvements in speed and ease of development, the new language aims to replace Objective C, Apple's previous language of choice.
As usual, software development in the new language is limited to the company's XCode programming IDE available for no cost in OS X.
As usual, software development in the new language is limited to the company's XCode programming IDE available for no cost in OS X.
If Apple were really interested in improving the state of the art, they'd contribute great ideas and code to improve an existing language or create a new one in collaboration with many others. But "hey here's our new language" is the same as "you must buy your software from our App Store TM". It's part of locking things down and limiting progress.