{"id":11887,"date":"2014-07-19T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T23:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11887"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:10","slug":"why-apples-swift-language-will-instantly-remake-computer-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/why-apples-swift-language-will-instantly-remake-computer-programming","title":{"rendered":"Why Apple\u2019s Swift Language Will Instantly Remake Computer Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/cade_metz\/\" rel=\"author\">Cade Metz<\/a> \u2014 Wired<br \/>\n<br \/> Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language\u2014a new way of designing, building, and running computer software\u2014and he didn\u2019t mention it to anyone, not even his closest friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>He started in the summer of 2010, working at night and on weekends, and by the end of the following year, he\u2019d mapped out the basics of the new language. That\u2019s when he revealed his secret to the top executives at his company, and they were impressed enough to put a few other seasoned engineers on the project. Then, after another eighteen months, it became a \u201cmajor focus\u201d for the company, with a huge team of developers working alongside Lattner, and that meant the new language would soon change the world of computing. Lattner, you see, works for Apple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/07\/apple-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cade Metz \u2014 Wired Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language\u2014a new way of designing, building, and running computer software\u2014and he didn\u2019t mention it to anyone, not even his closest friends and colleagues. He started in the summer of 2010, working at night and on weekends, and by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64938,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11887\/revisions\/64938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}