mattdonnelly

It is actually, but functions like the one mentioned above are bindings for Objective-C / C functions and share the same name as the function they bind to

Almost all of Apple's frameworks written in Objective-C and C are incredibly verbose. It's just an adopted style of the language and although it's often a little difficult to look at, it can be quite helpful sometimes

Most of problems I encountered while writing this came from Swift's interoperability with Objective-C. It can often be difficult to work with and takes a while to get used to. I actually think it would be worth developers considering porting their existing Objective-C libraries to Swift for this reason alone. That said, I don't think developers should start porting their App Store apps yet. It still feels very much like it's in beta and some functionality hasn't been implemented (such as static class variables). Despite this though, I think Swift has a huge amount of potential, and once things really kick off with it, we'll probably be seeing a lot more developers writing apps in Swift than in Objective-C. The language really has a lot to offer over Objective-C in my opinion

PS: hi kevin

The processes for creating frameworks in Swift is pretty much the same as with Objective-C. That said Xcode 6 has made it much easier to handle distributing frameworks for different devices

This was actually part of something else I've been working on rather than attempt at deliberately reinventing the wheel. That said, I do think there's some benefit in rewriting existing Objective-C frameworks in Swift as Swift's interoperability with Objective-C can be difficult to deal with at times

This is a simple little app I've been working for the last few months.

Some of the features include:

- Two Viewing Modes: Grid and List.

- Browse all of your feeds including popular, everyone and debuts

- User login, so you can view your personal following feed and access your profile quickly

- HTML Comments + Automatic Link Detection

- Fullscreen Image Viewer

- Sharing options

- View user profiles

- Animated GIF support

- Designed for iOS 7

- French, German, Spanish and Irish Localization

Would love for you to check it out!

I also open sourced the component I wrote for rendering HTML comments in the app: https://github.com/mattdonnelly/MDHTMLLabel

Nothing you said is factually wrong but you're being obnoxiously pedantic and rude. OP was merely commenting on the similarities between his and John Carmack's approach to solving the problem and is in no way deluding himself by comparing the two in terms of complexity. It's absolutely possible to write a naive solution to a small problem and still take a similar approach to a more complex one

Christ, you sound like such an insufferable prick