Discussing this week's quarterly results Apple, CEO Tim Cook said that the new language of Swift has a great future. According to the head, this is a huge step forward for the entire ecosystem of the company and the key to successful cooperation with IBM enterprise software development.
During the announcement of Apple's developers Swift stated that they wanted to create a language that will be spared the cumbersome heritage Objective-C. Swift was laid out in the platform NeXt, which became the basis for OS X, and then iOS. Programmers can see in real time the results of their programming. And Swift language in accordance with their name is faster than Objective-C.
Calling Swift innovative programming language for iOS and OS X, Tim Cook said that he was the result of the latest research in the field of programming languages with decades of experience in creating Apple-platforms. From Swift to write the code is converted into a simple task, it eliminates all classes unsafe code generates applications that are running at an incredible rate.
"Easy to study programming language Swift will allow more developers to realize their dream of a completely new category of applications. We believe that the following issues operating systems in conjunction with Swift will lead to a huge leap forward for the entire ecosystem Apple », - said Cook.
CEO recalled that the WWDC 2014, which were presented to 8 iOS, OS X Yosemite and Swift, attracted an online audience of 20 million users.
Apple said that iOS application developers have earned over $ 20 billion with almost half of this amount was paid in the last 12 months, which means the continued rapid growth of the "apple" of the ecosystem.