Software developer Chris Lattner, who is the main author of LLVM as well as Apple's Swift programming language, is leaving Apple, he said today. From a post: When we made Swift open source and launched Swift.org we put a lot of effort into defining a stro...
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In short, the argument is that there are many types of problems that developers are currently solving with the dynamic features of the ObjC runtime. As we are (possibly) heading towards a future…
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I was sad to hear John Conway had recently died of COVID-19. Conway was a mathematician who contributed much to his field, but for me as a computer scientist, I knew of him for his Game of Life (aka just Life). (more…)
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iOS 13.4 Xcode Version 11.4 (11E146) Swift 5 Swift-Protobuf 1.8.0 proto2 My iOS app is using generated code from outdated proto files. Since I've compiled the .swift files from the old protos, ... (more…)
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For the first time, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar system in late 2019. (more…)
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