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by nostrademons 3724 days ago
Swift is in an interesting position compiler-wise: the frontend is bleeding-edge and often unstable (though many of the crashes, in my experience, were fixed with Swift 2.2), but the backend is rock-solid LLVM, which has had a lot of optimization & stability improvements go into it through Clang and Apple's existing Objective-C toolchain. Rust is in the same position.