Apple Gives Open Source a Swift 2 Kick

(Before It's News)

Apple this week announced Swift 2 and said it would open-source it later this year. Swift 2 is a programming language for iOS, OS X and watchOS. It has a new error handling model that works with Apple SDKs and NSError. Two new features in Objective-C — nullability annotations and generics — make Swift 2 work better with Apple SDKs. “Generating higher-quality code is the central problem in software engineering, and anything that helps developers do that will help,” said Al Hilwa, a program director at IDC.

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