Re: GNUstep's lack of progress and Apple's holding back Swift language

[ChanMaxthon]

Not even my reflection and KVC-based automatic JSON-to-object converter 
(https://github.com/xcvista/CGIJSONObjects) work well with Swift... Any issue 
there?

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> On Apr 3, 2015, at 18:40, David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Apr 2015, at 00:27, Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It seems that the reason so many people are happy about
>> Swift is because it's NOT ObjC, for whatever sense that makes.
> 
> From talking to our local Cocoa dev group and a few others, there seems to be 
> a trend in developers following the same pattern:
> 
> 1) See Swift, follow the tutorials.
> 2) Think Swift is amazing, be very excited about it.
> 3) Try to deal with JSON data in Swift, wonder WTF the language designers 
> were thinking.
> 4) Go back to Objective-C.
> 
> I imagine that there will be another iteration of the language to make 
> dealing with heterogeneous containers less painful.  Apple still doesn't (as 
> far as I know) provide a mechanism for creating shared libraries in Swift, so 
> it's not like we're seeing frameworks (where 90+% of all application code 
> lives) being stuck on Apple-only platforms.
> 
> David
> 
> -- Sent from my IBM 1620
> 
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