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by rimantas 3774 days ago
WWDC app was done in Swift, IIRC. Not the core app by any means, but still.
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kennywinker 3774 days ago
That turned out not to be quite as true as they said it was...

> While the WWDC app does in fact use Swift, it’s not as much as you might think. Out of 281 classes, only 6 are written in Swift. The Apple Store app is also using Swift for its watch app. That’s about all the production Swift I could find from Apple on iOS.

Source: https://medium.com/@ryanolsonk/is-apple-using-swift-4a6c80f7...

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rdsnsca 3774 days ago
They are using on more on the Mac. Parts of Mac OS X El Capitan are written in Swift.
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nicky0 3774 days ago
Federighi said on Gruber's podcast that the Dock team completely rewrote Dock in Swift. However most of the other OS X teams are only testing the waters. A big part of it is lack of 32-bit support for Swift apps.
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rdsnsca 3773 days ago
Federighi said:

" the team that does the Dock and the window management on OS X, implemented all their new features for El Capitan in Swift and started mass-converting all of their code, and say that they couldn’t imagine going back and that they’re more productive with it."

So the window management team is also using it.

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xenihn 3774 days ago
Only the dock IIRC.
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