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by bsaul 420 days ago
The swift language is absolutely fantastic. But the constraints (such as objective-c compatibility) made it a juggernaut.

It's actually very surprising they managed to get that language work at all given the size of it. In that regard, i wouldn't say execution was bad. It was just unrealistic, and too much was asked from it.
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frizlab 420 days ago
ObjC interoperability is a solved problem now for Swift. They are even adding C++ and Java interop too!
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bsaul 420 days ago
it is, but it definitely added some weight to the language. At least i think so, i'm not a PL expert.

My recent point of comparison is rust, which feels like a much much smaller language, despite sharing a lot of the philosophy (struct + trait, which is very similar to what swift recommends to use nowadays, and limit the use of class).

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