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It may be better than Objective-C, but from a broader perspective (comparing to all languages), I don't see the big deal here. None of the features you've mentioned in this thread were introduced in the PL literature later than the 1980s. What's so good about this new language aside from making fewer mistakes?
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rjmccall posted:We didn't set out specifically to appease language hipsters, nor are we submitting the language guide to POPL. I personally feel that making fewer mistakes is an admirable goal. Plenty of new languages with more interesting research pedigrees do not, in fact, succeed at making fewer mistakes. Well OK, but where is Apple trying to position this language in the market? Do you expect that, like Java and C and Python, Swift will be used all over the place in many different environments... or do you see it more like Objective-C, a language that is technically just as general-purpose as the others, but in reality is used only by developers for Apple platforms? I'm not trying to push language hipster crap for its own sake, but if I don't see anything here that I can't get from languages I already know, then I'm not going to invest the time into learning a new tool.
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