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Swift, the second-most-loved programming language by Stack Overflow's estimation, has showed up on IBM's BlueMix cloud platform, dressed for general availability. She began performing as a runtime on BlueMix in February, when IBM provided a way to load a Swift binary into Linux containers, to build it as an application, and to …

  1. Korev Silver badge
    Childcatcher

    Swift?

    Not a single snarky mention of Apple "borrowing" the name from err Swift? Unlike El Reg to miss a swipe at Apple.

    1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge

      Re: Swift?

      Ah sure, thought everyone knew that, though.

      C.

  2. marc 9

    Tailored Swift

    I see what you did there. This author deserves a bonus :)

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The apple didn't fall very far from the C tree

    Sure, there are some nice ideas in Swift -- just like all the other C-descended languages knocking around. But there are also some very, very ugly choices that the designers made in the language foundations. For example: different type coercion rules for literals versus constants?

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