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So now everyone's pet project gets a language extension in Swift? Apple extended the language with @_functionBuilder for SwiftUI. Now Google wants to extend it
by targonca 7y ago
So now everyone's pet project gets a language extension in Swift? Apple extended the language with @_functionBuilder for SwiftUI. Now Google wants to extend it with this differentiable stuff for TensorFlow.
Why won't they implement proper metaprogramming support instead of proliferating the core language?
- classified 7y ago> Why won't they implement proper metaprogramming support instead of proliferating the core language? Proper metaprogramming support is hard. Polluting the language with special case hocus pocus is relatively easy.
- marmaduke 7y ago> Polluting the language with special case hocus pocus is relatively easy or if it's well done is it still hocus pocus pollution?
- classified 7y agoThen it's pollution with compiler magic. But only if it's really well done.