Apple just released the spec (of course, only available on Apple iBookstore) of Swift - new programming language which is supposed to replace the relict Objective C currently used to code the apps for Apple devices.
At first glance, there is no breakthrough or innovation, all the language constructs and methodologies are trivial and known for many years. But it is definitely better than extremely outdated Objective C.
Apple always make everything by themselves, including language. There are a lot of good languages created already, but the problem is that Apple need a full control plus some money, similar to Microsoft's C# and VB. The difference is that at the time C# or VB were introduced they actually WERE innovative.
And finally... It looks like Swift does not have any runtime error/exception handling – I actually verified it, there is nothing in the spec about errors or exceptions! I can’t believe it, this is ridiculous, it must be some kind of mistake of beta release or incomplete spec... I like Apple devices, and I am sure there is no chance there will be any unexpected errors in apps running on Apple OS and hardware, but come on, just in case - there is a good tradition of supporting exception handling in some other languages such as Pascal, Java, C++, or C#...
At first glance, there is no breakthrough or innovation, all the language constructs and methodologies are trivial and known for many years. But it is definitely better than extremely outdated Objective C.
Apple always make everything by themselves, including language. There are a lot of good languages created already, but the problem is that Apple need a full control plus some money, similar to Microsoft's C# and VB. The difference is that at the time C# or VB were introduced they actually WERE innovative.
And finally... It looks like Swift does not have any runtime error/exception handling – I actually verified it, there is nothing in the spec about errors or exceptions! I can’t believe it, this is ridiculous, it must be some kind of mistake of beta release or incomplete spec... I like Apple devices, and I am sure there is no chance there will be any unexpected errors in apps running on Apple OS and hardware, but come on, just in case - there is a good tradition of supporting exception handling in some other languages such as Pascal, Java, C++, or C#...
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