It never hurts when a programming language becomes accessible to a wider audience. During the WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple announced that Swift 2, the update to its Swift programming language, would receive significant changes. A number of enhancements to the language are planned, adding Objective-C generics, a faster debug mode, C function pointer APIs […]
Tag: APIs
If you were hankering for a 64-bit version of Google Chrome for OS X, it’s finally arrived. Safari has been 64-bit since OS X 10.6 (August 2009) and Firefox has been 64-bit since version 4 (2011). Incidentally, a 64-bit web browser is required to run Oracle Java on OS X. Per Google’s Chrome Releases Blog, the Chrome […]
Not that the competition between Apple and Microsoft will ever truly go away, but this could herald in slightly better relations between the two companies, especially given how long it took Microsoft Office to come to iOS. Per The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Microsoft has released a new series of tools for developers looking to improve […]
This one’s fairly substantial. On Tuesday, Adobe released Flash Player 11.9.900.117 for Mac OS X, an 18 megabyte download via MacUpdate. The new version adds the following fixes and changes: – Mobile Workers (concurrency) – Android: Workers APIs are now supported for Android. This will work only with swf-version 22 (namespace 3.9) or later. The […]
They grow up so fast… On Wednesday, Google released version 30.0.1599.66 of its Chrome web browser. The update, a 53.7 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: Fixes and Improvements: – Easier searching by image. – A number of new apps/extension APIs. – Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance. Security […]