Says it's done away with 'the baggage of C' at last

By Neil McAllister, 2 Jun 2014

 

Swift code outperforms Python by a wide margin, Federighi said, and even beats Objective-C

 

WWDC Apple surprised the audience at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday with a tool few attendees expected: a new programming language for iOS and OS X development called Swift.

There already is a programming language called Swift that was developed by the National Science Foundation, some other government agencies, and the University of Chicago for use in parallel computing applications. This isn't that.

 What it is, is an entirely new syntax that – in the words of Apple senior VP Craig Federighi, who unveiled it during the Monday morning WWDC keynote – aims to be "Objective-C without the baggage of C."

Some of that "baggage" will already be familiar to developers who cut their teeth on C but later moved on to scripting languages such as Python (and Federighi compared Swift to Python several times during his presentation).

 

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