Swift

Gareth Murfin

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Mar 22, 2016, 7:22:23 AM3/22/16

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Is Swift supported yet for writing native code? Looks so much nicer than objc

Shai Almog

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Mar 23, 2016, 1:08:35 AM3/23/16

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You can package swift code into a static library and use that.
One of the problems with moving to swift is the ARC requirement. We tried using ARC in the new VM but it caused serious crashes. I'd love to add support for that but not sure if it's feasible.

Gareth Murfin

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Mar 23, 2016, 9:20:28 AM3/23/16

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Wow, awesome, not sure about ARC I will need to read about it. Is there any documents on using swift? Steve should write a blog entry for it :-)

On 23 March 2016 at 13:08, Shai Almog <shai....@gmail.com> wrote:

You can package swift code into a static library and use that.
One of the problems with moving to swift is the ARC requirement. We tried using ARC in the new VM but it caused serious crashes. I'd love to add support for that but not sure if it's feasible.

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Shai Almog

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Mar 24, 2016, 12:10:25 AM3/24/16

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That's not a priority in any way. The idea is to write less native code not more.

Gareth Murfin

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Mar 29, 2016, 8:06:14 AM3/29/16

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Haha of course but I am finding new functionality daily that isnt supported (mostly useless junk from FB and google play services about analytics specifics) and OBJC makes me cry like a baby :-) Swift looks SANE.. to us java guys :)

Gareth Murfin

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Jul 10, 2017, 2:03:57 AM7/10/17

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has the swift situation changed at all? I may need to write a native lib and i hate objc.

Shai Almog

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Jul 11, 2017, 12:50:41 AM7/11/17

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No

Hasni Faiçal

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Mar 4, 2021, 7:41:39 PM3/4/21

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Any update about this

On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 5:50:41 AM UTC+1 Shai Almog wrote:

No

Shai Almog

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Mar 4, 2021, 11:07:45 PM3/4/21

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No.

But there is a workaround detailed here: https://github.com/codenameone/CodenameOne/issues/3274

There's also another RFE here: https://github.com/codenameone/CodenameOne/issues/3183

You can track both

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