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Wow, that's honestly not an opinion I've heard! I've always felt that Swift is one of the clearest, most comprehensible languages I've ever worked with. It also

Wow, that's honestly not an opinion I've heard! I've always felt that Swift is one of the clearest, most comprehensible languages I've ever worked with. It also strikes me as a great balance between simplicity and flexibility/power/features. I don't want to ask you to dive into specifics, since I'm not doing so myself, but I'd love to hear if there's any standout examples of unnecessary complexity for you.

gurkendoktor 7y ago
Another Apple ex-fanboy here. I loved the conceptual simplicity of Objective-C and its easy integration with the rest of the C-family world, I really enjoyed Foundation & UIKit around iOS 5, I still use Xcode a lot - but Swift made me slowly move back to a C++/generalist career. As a random example, take the content of this article: https://www.rightpoint.com/rplabs/switch-method-dispatch-table https://www.rightpoint.com/rplabs/switch-method-dispatch-tab... This is something that my less grumpy iOS developer colleagues regularly stumble over, and yet they keep telling me that Swift is super simple. Also, Apple's tooling for Swift has gotten less crashy, but not more reliable in my experience. Almost every time I command-click a Swift function in Xcode to find its definition/source, Xcode shows me a random C function with the same name in some completely unrelated header file. I predict/hope that Combine will be peak Swift, and that it will only accelerate the move to Electron and other portable technologies (go Flutter!).