<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 3, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Cyril Graze <<a href="mailto:cgraze@gmail.com" class="">cgraze@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="">Is it possible to develop any type of application with a GUI? </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Sure. It’s pretty straightforward to call C APIs from Swift. You just need to learn your way around a few glue classes like UnsafePointer*. The best reference for now would be Apple’s book <i class="">Using Swift With Cocoa And Objective-C</i>. I don’t think that book is part of the open-source drop, but you can get it for free from the iBooks store.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Just be careful to encapsulate all the unsafe parts of the code into a class or module that exposes a safe API, then use that API in your app code itself. If you go sprinkling unsafe stuff all over your app, it’s going to be really nasty to debug...</div></body></html>