“Initial enthusiasm for Apple’s newly introduced Swift language appears to have died down somewhat, based on two monthly programming language popularity indexes,” Paul Krill reports for InfoWorld.
“The Tiobe Index for August had Swift dropping to its 23rd most-popular language; Swift was was ranked 16th in its first appearance in the index last month,” Krill reports. “In the PyPL Index of Language Popularity, Swift came in 11th place this month; it was slotted in the 10th spot in July. ‘I expect Swift to slow down a bit in popularity for a couple of months. This was just the initial hype,’ said Paul Jansen, managing director at Tiobe. ‘After that it will regain its popularity to an even higher level.'”
“Apple introduced Swift on June 2 at its annual World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco,” Krill reports. “The language has been positioned as platform for building OS X and iOS applications and features advanced capabilities such as generics and closures.”
Read more in the full article here.
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It needs semicolons, not whitespace, but other than that, it’s very elegant.
It has semicolons.
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/TheBasics.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH5-XID_460
Thanks, I didn’t see that. I guess I can accept that; I wish they were required though. Code would look cleaner all one way or the other…
Oh, the fresh smell of semicolons in the morning. I had forgotten their elegance. But I digress.
And here I thought colon cleansing was the rage these days. Shows what little I know. 🙂
They took out a foot of my colon when I had cancer. Now I have a semicolon cleansing.
Popularity expected to rise…even more…in the coming months? No way! Definitely reading that full article!
Swift is a nice start. It will gain creed as it gains features. It’s still in its infancy.