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> I've yet to see a Ruby IDE that is much of an improvement on a text editor, whereas Swift is pretty young and already has tooling comparable to much more matu
by Oreb 10y ago
> I've yet to see a Ruby IDE that is much of an improvement on a text editor, whereas Swift is pretty young and already has tooling comparable to much more mature languages.
I've never worked with Ruby, but I do work with (and mostly enjoy) Swift. The one thing I really don't like about Swift is that the currently available tooling (both AppCode and Xcode) is extremely primitive compared to what I am used to from Common Lisp and Clojure.
- overgard 10y agoAnecdotal data point of one guy's opinion, with no elaboration on reasons? Convincing. I'm talking about WHY analyzing dynamic languages is fundamentally undecidable in many cases without run time knowledge. Trying to do anything other than heuristics on some of these things is about as decidable as the halting problem. The only argument I've heard against this is you can have a hybrid environment with a REPL so your dead code is live. Ok, but you can do the same thing with static typing too.