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Swift took a well-developed language, looked hard at what was lacking/worked-around/deprecated/old/annoying, and rebuilt the language from scratch to get it rig

Swift took a well-developed language, looked hard at what was lacking/worked-around/deprecated/old/annoying, and rebuilt the language from scratch to get it right/modern this time. Would we could do this with other languages.

batteryhorse 8y ago
That well-developed language that they tried to improve on was C++, not Objective-C.
- pjmlp 8y ago
  Apple doesn't agree with you. "Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages." -- https://developer.apple.com/swift/ https://developer.apple.com/swift/