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by isodev 168 days ago
Knowing two or more languages is kind of liberating even. People love shiny but there are no shortcuts in this case.

Also, given <waves hands at everything>, I’d never consider becoming even more dependent on some big bad corp. And even if one is to put that aside somehow, Swift is a painful language … would be such a self own to have to use it even in places you’re not forced to.
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myko 168 days ago
Shocked to hear Swift described as "painful" (well, maybe the new concurrency stuff)
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isodev 168 days ago
It's always been unpleasant but you could find a balance to make it work. Since Swift 6 it's just headache as a service. If only we weren't forced to use it..

Also picture this. Every time you run swift build, you get a mental image of Cook dining with Trump. It's very hard to stay focused and creative in that ecosystem rn.

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saagarjha 168 days ago
I have unfortunate news about the tech industry in general.
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isodev 168 days ago
Indeed, but it doesn't hurt to be a bit more selective and future thinking when choosing a stack or tools.
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saagarjha 167 days ago
Where are you heading to next?
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einsteinx2 167 days ago
So Swift is painful to use because Tim Cook once had dinner with someone you don’t like?
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willtemperley 168 days ago
Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai were all there dining with Trump.

Weird how Tim Cook gets so much hate, when the rest of them didn't. He didn't say anything notable except a bit of ring-kissing: "I want to thank you for setting the tone such that we can make a major investment ..."

Then Sergey Brin starts talking about how he's happy about Trump pressuring Maduro:

You're applying a lot of pressure to Maduro and I think that's phenomenal for an American president to actually be applying pressure there uh in Venezuela and then hopefully in Cuba and so forth. So there's a lot of um civil rights work that you're leading. we didn't get a chance to mention. Um I also just wanted to mention um we don't have to get into all the uh details talked about in the Oval Office, but uh I think it's a real incredible inflection point right now in AI and the fact that your administration uh is uh supporting our companies instead of fighting with them."

So, reading between the lines a little, i.e. Google looking depose dictators and burn lots of oil to keep their AI slop churning is totally fine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvbKA-Te8QE

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