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by wool_gather 2781 days ago
Yes, good point, thanks. But this is not quite what I was intending to say. The character of Swift is not very C- or ObjC-like. C's philosophy is largely (to borrow from Python) "we are all consenting adults here": raw flexibility is the name of the game. ObjC's class system is famously late-binding and runtime-malleable, and it carries all the flexibility of C. These are things that Swift eschews.