Writing extension with Swift instead of Objective-C?

[BoltsFellOff]

I wonder if it is possible to write the extension for the iOS with Swift instead of Objective-C language?
Has anyone experience/knowledge is this even possible?

I have already some experience with the Swift language and it is more "friendlier" than the Objective-C.

 

[TacticalCannonFodder]

Not to bump an old thread but I'm interested in this as well. Doing things in Swift doesn't look tough overall but the async part could use a good example as the code bits in the documentation/knowledgebase that I found don't apply.

 

[Rushad]

Hey, Im really interested in this as well. Has this been answered ?

 

[½ a cup]

If Swift can export DynLib's then yes you will be able to.

 

[FrostyCat]

If Swift can export DynLib's then yes you will be able to.

There is prior art of assumptions like this not holding true. Even if a language can output an extension binary, the internals have to line up with GM's handling of strings and reals to make sense in the end. A counterexample would be DLLs written in VB.

Still, I think it's worth a try to see if Swift can be used for the task, instead of sticking to Objective C all the time. Having more known options never hurts.