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Title: Apple's Swift blog shows how important the new language is
Post by: HCK on July 13, 2014, 09:00:19 pm
Apple's Swift blog shows how important the new language is

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It’s not every day that one gets to witness dramatic change happening quietly at Apple, but that’s exactly what took place on Friday, as the company’s Swift team launched its very own official blog (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/).</p><p>
As you may recall, Swift is a new programming language that senior vice president Craig Federighi announced at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (http://www.macworld.com/article/2358541/apple-unveils-swift-a-new-programming-language-for-ios-mac.html), which took place in San Francisco at the beginning of June. Designed to—at least for now—run alongside the venerable Objective-C, which harkens all the way back to the days of NeXT and OS X 10.0, Swift is meant to modernize the way developers build their apps by adopting many paradigms that have been available in other languages for a long time.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2452694/apple-launches-a-new-swift-blog-signaling-languages-importance.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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