If you are thinking of Swift

OZApps

There are plenty of resources and videos that demonstrate the awesome power of swift. It is in many ways a lot better than working with Objective-C, it feels more at home like it does when writing Lua code HOWEVER... it is not as forgiving as Lua. So if you are pedantic and use classes, etc rather than the sloppy way of scripts, then you would have a bit of an issue with Swift. The language is easy to use but you have to know the classes and API to really do anything. Since everything is an Object (like in any OO langauge) there are new classes like String and Int which are different to the older ones like NSString and NSInteger, however you might know that the Objective-C API works with CGFloat and not Ints, so be prepared to write lots of conversions between Ints and CGFloats, CGSizes, etc

Playground which is the Live Coding version is fun to work with, specially the graphical environment that displays and attempts to visualise very step the code runs and plot loops, etc. However it is not as fast and would crash more often almost making you wonder are you working with a Mac OS or Windows. With this Apple have now officially managed to make software that crashes as much or more than Windows software does.

Read up on Swift and look out for books, tutorials, video how-to, there are a lot of people that are offering these. Not sure how soon can we see this being adopted as main stream and/or allowing Gideros exported projects to use Swift as the C++ bridge/interface is not easy, you almost have to go Swift->Objective-C->C++.

Nascode

@OZApps i have yet playing with Swift, but it sure looks promising, a nice balance between strict and forgiving - script like. Sadly for now it's only on Apple ecosystem

HubertRonald

@OZApps thanks for share!

I believe that time will say us if Swift is a nice option. For now is a little difficult for me test this language, but I want to try it too when I have time, because I've work pending and I'll not change for the moment Xcode, because I'm sure I get a headache with my current projects.

Mells

@OZApps
very interesting, thank you.

OZApps

please let me clarify, I am not saying that Swift is the Silver Bullet, I am just saying that since it is the new kid (who is a Celebrity (Apple) Kid, hence getting all the attention) people are wanting a peek to see what is it all about. You are welcome to try it out move to it, use it in tandem, whatever is up to you. I am just sharing some of the things that I find about the language/environment as I use it.

Plus you HAVE to move to mavericks and get xcode 6. In my case, my iMac is still Lion and has 24 GB RAM (it is stable and workes well) my Mac Book Pro is Mavericks and 4GB and struggles with RAM compression and what not and xcode being ß - crashes more often than working. Am swapping the HDD for a SSD, installing 10.10.10 to test and will tell you if that made any difference.

HubertRonald

Hi @OZApps, yes I understood what you said initially, maybe I fall short when I tried to give you my point of view. But as I said a couple of months ago, I'm not a programmer by profession and currently, I'm really understanding Lua and add in this moment another language of programing... will be complicate my equation.

OZApps

But as I said a couple of months ago, I'm not a programmer by profession and currently, I'm really understanding Lua and add in this moment another language of programing... will be complicate my equation.

WOW!! Not even a programmer and you have two lovely apps, Paint Pong and Bow Sailboat!! That is amazing...

I am looking forward to Bow Sailboat to be released, looks like a neat concept and fun.

HubertRonald

I am looking forward to Bow Sailboat to be released, looks like a neat concept and fun.

Hi @OZApps
This couple of months I have been seeing issues more related to my profession of industrial engineering (as many people here, I've to pay for the house, the girlfriend, LOL).

But this weekend I'm going to focus with hard in Bow Sailboat, as I mentioned is a matter of improving its performance, because on Gideros Player (iMac), it is run nice but when it runs on iPhone 4 it's run slow.

And again I will have to read this book Learn Lua for iOS Game Development I don't know if you know the author (it's a joke your book is a good reference for me)

I will also review are @ar2rsawseen's suggestions in more detail Software Improve - What kind of skills do you need? although I've been implementing some of his suggestions.

Thank @john26 too, because he got smoke coming out of my head and I could delve into a little more in my knowledge of Lua in this post Stupid Lua question

OZApps

Hi @OZApps
This couple of months I have been seeing issues more related to my profession of industrial engineering (as many people here, I've to pay for the house, the girlfriend, LOL).

Hubert, enjoy it while you are young, later you will be also paying for children, ex-wife, new girlfriend, houseS, etc

HubertRonald

Hubert, enjoy it while you are young, later you will be also paying for children, ex-wife, new girlfriend, houseS, etc

) ) )
a promising future!