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You've hit the nail on the head, but I take the opposite conclusion. Swift is designed around premature optimization. In my experience, improving programmer pr
by beureum 8y ago
You've hit the nail on the head, but I take the opposite conclusion.
Swift is designed around premature optimization. In my experience, improving programmer productivity is more important. The more time spent with compiler enforced busywork is less time in Instruments. The same goes for compile times. If you want people to write fast code then help them to iterate quickly.
- MR4D 8y agoGreat comment!! One of the problems I have is that I love python, but I was hoping that swift would be like python on steroids. Instead, I can’t make the leap because python lets me iterate so freaking fast. If I could have something like that with the ability to incrementally improve my code and compile to a binary, I’d be happy. I thought awift would be it, but your comment helped me understand why it isn’t working for me. Full disclosure, I’m not a full time dev, so YMMV.
- valuearb 8y agoMost developer time is spent finding and fixing bugs. That’s what makes developing in Swift much more productive than in Objective C.
- beureum 8y agoWell yeah pretty much anything is better than ObjC.