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by blub 3066 days ago
Apple can't write a tool to properly update automatically between Swift versions today, but according to you, this could have been done in the 80s or 90s for C++ which is notoriously hard to parse...
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I didn't say that.

It's not the 80s anymore, and the reason that C++ is still and will always remain hard to parse is... backwards compatibility.