Swift vs. Objective-C: A New Programming Language

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https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2015.3310

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Objects, Software, Programming, Objective-C, Swift
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This work was performed by the “Ingeniería Dirigida por Modelos MDE-RG” research group at the University of Oviedo under Contract No. FUO-EM-086-14 of the research project “Proyecto Visio”. Project partially-financed by Zed Worldwide S.A.

Abstract

The appearance of a new programming language gives the necessity to contrast its contribution with the existing programming languages to evaluate the novelties and improvements that the new programming language offers for developers. These kind of studies can show us the efficiency, improvements and useful or uselessness of the new programming languages. Also these studies can show us the good or bad properties of the existing programming languages. For these reasons, these studies allow us to know if the new programming language is offering improvements or relapses. In this article, we compare the new programming language of Apple, Swift, with the main programming language of Apple before Swift, Objective-C. We are going to show the differences, characteristics and novelties to verify the words of Apple about Swift. With that we want to answer the next question: Is Swift a new programming language easier, more secure and quicker to develop than Objective-C?

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How to Cite

González García, C., Pascual Espada, J., Pelayo G-Bustelo, B. C., and Cueva Lovelle, J. M. (2015). Swift vs. Objective-C: A New Programming Language. International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 3(3), 74–81. https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2015.3310

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2015): IJIMAI 2015 - Regular Issue.

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