Possibly. All I said that none of the concepts introduced by swift are new or missing from other languages that have the advantage of being cross-platform and out of beta. Simply said, there's no reason for me to go out of my way to try it on my non-Apple platform.

Makes sense. It would be nice if the language was open sourced and usable elsewhere.

compiled code is less than optimized and seems like it would fail in any production environment, that is unless you throw away the swift features by compiling with -0fast, if you do that then why should I use swift in the first place?

not bringing anything revolutionary is another thing, this is an over-hyped language because of the name backing it

Is this a general statement or something pertaining only to swift. Sounds like you are calling out every compiled language out there.

Welp... Then again I am not surprised. Ruby using MRI mostly consists of C/assembler for core functions if a recall.

The language is still in an early beta form and will likely have a much better compiler in the near future. I'm not going to pass much judgement on it until it has a reasonably mature compiler.

This post was edited by rockonkenshin on Jun 10 2014 01:15pm

It's a known issue with swift.