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by supster 3697 days ago
I'm a big fan. I love the statically inferred type system, generics, & optionals. Also really like a lot of the functional programming concepts + value types but still enjoy being able to fall back on OOP. It feels like the best of both worlds. I can't wait till we have language native concurrency techniques, so I can start writing swift in backend code.
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RotsiserMho 3697 days ago
I was disappointed to see that concurrency support won't be in Swift 3.0.
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thramp 3697 days ago
Me too, but I’d I realized that I’d rather the Swift team not half-ass such a big feature, especially when they’re working on ABI stability and translation of Foundation API’s.

Plus, I bet one of the things that’s holding proper concurrency back are Apple’s frameworks. I’d rather deal with callbacks for another year or two than use a rushed language feature.

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chrisamanse 3697 days ago
Concurrency is done with libdispatch library, which is also open source. Right now, it's only compatible with OS X, but int their post, they said that "For Linux, Swift 3 will also be the first release to contain the Swift Core Libraries."

https://swift.org/blog/swift-3-0-release-process/

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