OT: This Swift thing
Sturla Molden
sturla.molden at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 16:43:06 EDT 2014
Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course, I wish they had picked Python rather than inventing their
> own language. But Apple put a huge stock in the ability of their
> libraries to make full use of multiple cores.
The GIL is not relevant if they stick to the Objective-C runtime and LLVM.
> The GIL is surely the
> sticking point here. It is also clear (reading the Swift
> documentation) that they wanted a script-like language but with strict
> typing.
A Python with static typing would have been far better, IMHO. It seems they
have created a Python-JavaScript bastard with random mix of features.
Unfortunately they retained the curly brackets from JS...
Are Python apps still banned from AppStore, even if we bundle an
interpreter? If not, I see no reason to use Swift instead of Python and
PyObjC – perhaps with some Cython if there is "need for speed".
Sturla
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