Lot of fun is coming from OSX world ...
Apple WWDC yesterday : "We are excited about the opportunities an open source Swift creates for our industry. Baked-in safety features combined with excellent speed mean it has the chance to dramatically improve software versus using C-based languages. Swift is packed with modern features, it’s fun to write, and we believe it will get used in a lot of places. Together, we have an exciting road ahead."
Don't really see your point there, we won't be writing embedded btle apps in Swift, but I do hope Swift 2 is better than Swift 1 which was a disappointing mess. And none of that is related MBED's lip-service-only support for OSX about which I was complaining.
I also note that there are no WWDC sessions this year on Bluetooth. I was hoping for some new API, more control of the connection from within iOS and the splitting up of the Master/Slave and Server/Peripheral connection which CoreBluetooth has perpetuated since the beginning, access to flags and raw data etc. There's no API diffs I can see yet but .. not looking good.
A wish for the future, Swift as a programming language for microcontrollers (read IoT).
About Bluetooth (Smart) ... , as Apple philosophy, no low level control, but only the functions requested by Apple frameworks finalized to specific Apple use case.
All Bluetooth Smart logic is implemented in CoreBluetooth, CoreLocation and HomeKit.
Will be interesting to see if the new nRF52 will be compliant with Apple HomeKit .
