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What does "already seeing this" have to do with any meaningful input on the subject?
by Techonomicon 9y ago
What does "already seeing this" have to do with any meaningful input on the subject?
- saagarjha 9y agoI was providing a parallel from my experience, which I thought might foster discussion on how such an API improvement might proceed based on historical anecdotes. Was this not a welcome addition?
- ambulancechaser 9y agoi think people are interested in the lessons learned in the past. are you sceptical or hopeful? how did apple's stab at this work out in the past? is it fundamentally flawed or deeply overdue.
- saagarjha 9y agoI think Apple did a pretty good job in most cases when getting their code to work well in Swift. I'm hopeful that this will also be the case with Android, but the hitch is that a lot will have to change. Swift's closures, extensions, etc. already had Objective-C counterparts which were not difficult to translate; but Java, on the other hand, doesn't provide many of the features that Kotlin does (hence the drastic reduction of boilerplate we can see in the blog post).