Swift to C++

So having just watched a great webcast from O’Reilly on Swift (and certainly having plenty more to learn):

• Protocols == Pure Virtuals
• Generics == Templates
• Extensions == Class Derivation/Extension/Overloading on steroids
• Operator Overloading == Operator Overloading, again on steroids.
• Closures == well, nothing innate, but pretty much same thing as Python Closures

Curiously, and I wonder if it causes problems, that there is no “protected” equivalent. Also from a purely base syntactic level it looks remarkably Scala-like though it falls away quickly on analysis.

Interesting language, definitely. Topic reminds me of Jason Bock’s “If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers”.