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by scuff3d 89 days ago
I'm reading the first of the blog posts. I've never actually seen any Swift code before, but looking at the package definition I'm struck by how much it looks like Zig. I've never heard Andrew Kelly call Swift out as an influence, but it seems some Swift DNA is in Zig.

Also, brave calling it swift-claude-code given Anthropics behavior.
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vanyaland 89 days ago
Interesting observation on package definitions. Languages borrow good ideas from each other all the time, and the ecosystem is better for it.

On the naming fair point, already renamed the CLI binary after an earlier comment here. The repo name is more about discoverability.

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scuff3d 88 days ago
Agreed. I wasn't saying it's a bad thing, just interesting.

The thing that really stuck out to me was the dot syntax:`.SomeVariable`. I'm guessing those are enum accesses where the compiler can figure out what it is from context? It's all over Zig, and it seriously screws with me lol. I know it's a me problem, but I can never keep straight what's what.

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