<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift?utm_source=SitePoint&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Versioning" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift?utm_source=SitePoint&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Versioning</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I assume that's a bigge, as swift is another post-functional language - merges functional programming with object oriented*, where both are "first class" citizens. It also adds goodies like pattern matching. Apple also claims it's a "systems language".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, very similar to Scala, but no need for the JVM - it compiles to LLVM code. It might break new grounds where Scala couldn't, because of the anti-JVM atmosphere that's quite common outside of the Java universe.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It will also be interesting to see how it fares vs. Google's Go.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- Michael</div></body></html>