titaniumdecoy

Why would Apple write a Swift compiler in Objective-C, a language that it is in the process of phasing out in favor if Swift?

And of course it is not possible to write a Swift compiler in Swift before the language exists.

So no, not odd at all. Quite logical actually.

I guess you're still using Photoshop version 1. You wouldn't want to pay for all that technical debt in subsequent versions, after all.

Off the top of my head...

1. App trial periods

2. Paid app upgrades

3. App Store search results that are actually relevant

4. Ability to respond to negative reviews

5. Mac App Store sand boxing that doesn't suck

Of course, there are many more issues but the primary problem is that Apple has addressed exactly zero of these issues and the App Store itself is virtually unchanged after 5+ years.

According to the overview on the of hipku website, it uses only monosyllabic words, unlike this haiku.

> So that's where rights come from... they are a human construct, but there's also a single, objectively correct answer.

Ironically (since you are obviously a rational, self interested person), this statement is objectively false.

Why not include that in the URL?

Use Swift's nil coalescing operator: a ?? b

How are those two things different exactly?

This is a common but completely unfair criticism of Apple. Plenty of people complained when iOS 7 was made available for the iPhone 4 (because the hardware was too slow to run it properly). And Apple still sells and supports relatively ancient hardware (the iPad mini) as a result of their current strategy of selling last year's model as the second-best option.

I think you are splitting hairs. What would be the point of "legally" allowing you to build an app that could not be submitted to the App Store? The only way to distribute it would be to "illegally" jailbroken devices.

Really? So the IP address 10.10.10.10 is the same as 1.1.1.1?

Swift performs better than Objective-C which Cocos2d was already using, so I assume you are either misinformed or trolling.

> For both Larson and Pollak, one of Swift’s biggest advantages over Objective-C is that it does what’s called “automatic garbage collection.” Basically, this means that it will automatically dispose of unneeded information that’s sitting in a machine’s memory, and the result is that developers won’t have to spend a lot of time and energy trying to deal with memory management on their own. This is the primary reason that Larson believes Swift can reach a much larger number of developers.

Ummm... Automatic Reference Counting is not new to Swift (nor is it "garbage collection"), and has been part of Objective-C since 2011.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

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