Interesting. RemObjects Software is adding Swift (as in Apple’s new language) support to their toolset, allowing mixing it with Oxygen/RemObjects C# on Android/Java and .NET.
They’ve also added a new IDE named Fire on OSX.
Interesting.
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I’ve been keeping an eye on Fire as much as one can without being a RemObjects customer, ie via twitter etc. Looks great. 3 languages at least – Oxygene (Pascal), Hydrogene (C#) and Swift?
I don’t know if it includes a UI editor of any sort. marc hoffman may be able to chime in and answer all our questions 🙂
If you do see this, marc, what can we expect of Fire? You hint at having a few interesting takes on how an IDE is constructed. (Also, what’s your opinion of Swift? I’m conflicted – there seem to be some odd choices or unexpected behaviours, to me. The language also is not “readable” – I wish they’d use clearer keywords and in one or two cases less concise symbols. You must like it to make it a primary RemObjects language, though.)
Hi. Fire will follow our philosophy of using the platform native UI widgets and designers. It integrates with Xcode to edit Mac and IOS UI (it’s a single click/key sync process), and we’ll do similar for Android.
I hear you re being torn on Swift. there’s a lot to love about it, but there’s also quite a few WTF moments. Some of which have been alleviated in recent betas of Apple’s implementation. All in all its an interesting language with some nice concepts — and i cant wait to find a reason to use it for some real live coding…
Any truth to the rumours that Fire was built with Firemonkey?
Of course not. Fire is a fully native Cocoa app, written in RemObjects C#. No monkey business involved 😉
Damn, I failed my trolling exam again.
marc hoffman – Do you know if Swift is an open language? I.e. will Apple allow others to implement non-OSX/iOS versions of Swift?
I like the way it looks, even with the wtf’s.