Topcoder now has 3,700 Swift devs
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And jobs posted that require candidates to have 20 years experience with it to apply.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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The first paragraph includes this gem: "designed to combine the robustness of the Objective-C that iOS and OS X developers were used to with the speed of scripting languages like Python". Er... (Edit: I tried to post a similar comment there, but (like many blog sites now) they wanted access to my list of friends on Google+. I presume that's similar for other networks, and they can go take a flying f**k.)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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The first paragraph includes this gem: "designed to combine the robustness of the Objective-C that iOS and OS X developers were used to with the speed of scripting languages like Python". Er... (Edit: I tried to post a similar comment there, but (like many blog sites now) they wanted access to my list of friends on Google+. I presume that's similar for other networks, and they can go take a flying f**k.)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
Actually, isn't that a good description of it? :) Icky syntax and scripty slowness? (OK, the syntax is much better than O-C, but it's not as pretty as some.)
TTFN - Kent
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Or recruiters looking for 15+ years experience
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Swift is good for lock-in. You have to re-write your entire App if you want to port it to Android.
How is that different than Objective-C? For cross platform apps your choices remain C/C++ with wrappers around all the native API functions, HTML5 in an app that's just an icon and a browser control, or a cross compiler that tries to use magic to convert your code from the language you wrote in to one that the device has native support for.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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How is that different than Objective-C? For cross platform apps your choices remain C/C++ with wrappers around all the native API functions, HTML5 in an app that's just an icon and a browser control, or a cross compiler that tries to use magic to convert your code from the language you wrote in to one that the device has native support for.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt