<div dir="ltr">Interesting looking features from this thread on Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/274t5s/apple_swift_programming_language_unveiled">http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/274t5s/apple_swift_programming_language_unveiled</a><div>
<br></div><div><div>Statically typed with type inference.</div><div>Generics.</div><div>Closures.</div><div>No exceptions.</div><div>Extension methods.</div><div>Properties (syntax similar to C#), including lazy properties with the "@lazy" annotation.</div>
<div>Functions, methods and type (static) methods.</div><div>Support for observers (with "willSet" and "didSet"). Interesting to see the observer pattern baked in a language although I'm more partial to event buses for this kind of thing.</div>
<div>Enums.</div><div>Classes and structures (structures have restrictions regarding inheritance and other things).</div><div>For and while loops (statements, not expressions).</div><div>"mutating" keyword.</div>
<div>Named parameters.</div><div>Deinitializers (finalizers).</div><div>Protocols (interfaces).</div><div>Optional chaining with "a?.b?.c" and forced dereference with "!."".</div><div>Convenient "assign and test": "if let person = findPerson() ...".</div>
<div>Type casting with "is", down casting with "as?" (combines nicely with the "let" syntax. Ceylon does it right too).</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Tim Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim.g.armstrong@gmail.com" target="_blank">tim.g.armstrong@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>We had an off-list thread about this - the site went down due to load pretty soon after it announced and only got back online thanks to David Kelly moving it to a bunch of AWS servers.<br><br></div>- Tim<br>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Scott Krieder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skrieder@iit.edu" target="_blank">skrieder@iit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://swift-lang.org" target="_blank">swift-lang.org</a> is probably worth a lot of money now!<div>

<br></div><div><a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/apples-new-swift-coding-language-hopes-to-lock-down-errors/" target="_blank">http://www.cnet.com/news/apples-new-swift-coding-language-hopes-to-lock-down-errors/</a><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">



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