Swift Performance: Too Slow For Production | iMadMuch and more has been written about Apple’s new programming language, Swift. I even did a talk about it at Yow: Connected 2014. If you saw me there, you’d know that I’m not the biggest fan of Swift. I think the rollout of it has been an absolute disaster: the compiler is a shambles, the language design is inconsistent in places1 and it’s stupidly difficult to get working in libraries, particularl
