Swift Parallel Scripting Language

The site appears to have been last updated in 2013. At this point, I'm not sure whether this is the same language that Apple is introducing.

I doubt it is, but it's a nice place to share our thoughts about Swift given the lack of another URL. :)

Since there seems to be some confusion, this isn't Apple's language. Just a name collision. Swift is a C-syntax language built on the objective C runtime.

Apparently, this is a different swift lang than the one Apple just released today per this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7835126

The demo from the WWDC keynote is quite impressive. Unfortunately, this site seems to have been slashdotted. (Basically, Swift is "Apple acquires their own LightTable.") It's touted as a language for parallelism. I'm curious about its concurrency primitives. Since distribution is shown as a top feature, I'm going to guess that it has an Erlang-like actor model.

Having ARC and not needing GC will end up being a big fundamental advantage for its parallelism story.

Down for me ... looking forward to take a look at it ...

I'm so super excited - it's not just a new language, it's a whole new programming paradigm. Great job, Apple! You definitely blew us away! Farewell, obsolete Objective-C!