[cfe-users] Apple's Swift language, will it come to public clang?

[Chris Lattner]

Swift is pretty off topic for the clang mailing list, please take discussions to the apple developer forum or the public objc-language list:
https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/objc-language

-Chris

> On Jun 3, 2014, at 2:07 AM, Immanuel Litzroth <immanuel.litzroth at cloudfounders.com> wrote:
> 
> I had a cursory glance at the documentation and I could not find anything about exceptions or
> errorhandling in Swift. Are there any docs related to that?
> Immanuel
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>> On 3 June 2014 10:46, Adam Strzelecki <ono at java.pl> wrote:
>> Kevin wrote:
>> > (…) or will it be similar to C# and be a serious „platform-only“ thing?
>> 
>> IMHO since it is a part of LLVM project, there's nothing that makes it platform specific. Clang supports various ObjC runtimes, so I presume Swift will follow.
>> 
>> Chris wrote:
>> > We don't have anything to say about that at this point, but you can read all about swift, for free, with the new Swift iBook.
>> 
>> I am after my 1st read. So far what makes me curious is whether there will be a way to keep class instances on stack. From what I understood all classes are pointers where value types are not.
>> 
>> Not sure whether containers are pointers or values though. I wish to be there at WWDC ;)
>> 
>> Swift seems to carry C++11 power without its clutter, however I am not sure if it is as much expressive as C++11.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Adam
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