The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

The continued diary of an experienced C++ programmer. Thoughts on C++ and other languages I play with, Emacs, functional, non functional and sometimes non-functioning programming.

Timo Geusch

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Like pretty much every other programmer with a Mac, I’m currently looking at Swift. Will I write anything but toy programs in it? I don’t know yet - I don’t really write any Mac-ish software on my Mac,  just unix-ish programs. If Swift doesn’t escape the OS X and iOS ecosystems it’ll be a nice exercise in a neat language that’s not really that relevant to the world at large, or at least to my part of the world at large. Not that this sort of vendor lock-in can’t work well - Visual Basic 6, anybody?

I hope Apple will open the language to be used outside its software ecosystem but from what I have read so far, it’s tightly integrated into the iOS and Mac OS X runtimes so I’m not sure how feasible that even would be. Still, I’m pretty sure it’ll remain on my list of languages to play with.

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A developer's journey. Still trying to figure out this software thing after several decades.