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Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript
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Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript

by Radoslava Leseva Adams, Hristo Lesev
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
511 pages
14h 8m
English
Apress
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© Radoslava Leseva Adams and Hristo Lesev 2016

Radoslava Leseva Adams and Hristo Lesev, Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1666-8_17

17. Swift Language Basics

Radoslava Leseva Adams1  and Hristo Lesev2

(1)London, UK

(2)Kazanlak, Bulgaria

The first impression Flash developers usually share with us about Swift is “Oh, it’s almost ActionScript, isn’t it!” What they refer to is how readable syntax-wise a piece of Swift code is, compared to Objective-C, which used to be the typical choice when switching to native iOS programming. And they have a point: in contrast to transitioning to Objective-C, moving to Swift from ActionScript has a much lower entry point. Swift offers a lot more than that and in this chapter we will start ...

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