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Apples new Swift language explained: A clever move to boost iOS, while holding Android apps back

2014-06-03 20:45:09| Extremetech

With iOS 8 and OS X 10.10, and the the latest version of the Xcode developer tools, Apple has introduced a whole new programming language called Swift. According to Apple, Swift will make it a lot easier and more fun to develop apps for both iOS and OS X -- in contrast to the current language, Objective-C. Swift will also apparently bring a significant performance boost over Objective-C programs. But what is Swift, and how does it offer such a huge performance boost?

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