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by diegoperini 2688 days ago
Looking from a distance, what Swift does is actually taking best practices from modern C++ (14+) and incorporating them on the language level instead of introducing new library tools.

If you regularly code C++, the "fuck, yes!" moment is there when you learn Swift.
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gurkendoktor 2688 days ago
The flip side is that Swift has copied some bad parts of C++ as well: ridiculous compile times, value-type performance traps, ever-increasing complexity, mediocre IDE support, no ABI (I know, coming soon).

Either way, to me Swift feels much closer to C++ than to Objective-C in spirit. I don't think it's a coincidence that there are at least two C++ committee veterans among its contributors :)

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zozbot123 2688 days ago
You're actually describing what Rust is doing, more than anything. Swift has a lot more in common with Objective-C than C++, even though it does move away from the most challenging parts of Objective-C itself.
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