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by JBerlinsky 3394 days ago
> First, there's nothing "toy: about Swift. It's a full featured language on par with Rust, Go, etc.

A language with no promises of stability counts as a "toy" in my mind (I understand that this can be subjective, just providing my opinion).

Say what you want about Objective-C, but at least Apple stuck with basic syntax decisions.

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That kind of oversimplifies things. From my reading of the Swift mailing list, many things you would consider "basic syntax decisions" will have a profound impact on the stabilisation of the ABI.

Migrating is a pain, but I'll take the Swift migration pain over the maintenance of old Objective-C code any day. Even on large projects.