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This is really cool. I have been watching Swift with interest mainly because it is an answer to the question: How would a bunch of C++ experts (for example Doug

This is really cool. I have been watching Swift with interest mainly because it is an answer to the question: How would a bunch of C++ experts (for example Doug Gregor and David Abrahams) design a language if they could do it all over again? Before, the lack of a good cross-platform story kept me away. Now, I think this gives me an excuse to play around with Swift.

skohan 6y ago
It's a really nice language. IMO the main limitations currently are: 1. version/dependency management is a bit of a pain. Every time there's a major language update I have to do surgery on my larger swift projects 2. ARC-based memory managements has some serious pitfalls in terms of worst-case performance characteristics. But in terms of syntax and general philosophy, I have never found a language more pleasant to work with than Swift