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Not surprised that this project had trouble gaining traction given Swift's obsession with shoe-horning functional concepts into every crevice of the language, e
by jtdev 6y ago
Not surprised that this project had trouble gaining traction given Swift's obsession with shoe-horning functional concepts into every crevice of the language, e.g., I can't get through a single Swift tutorial without having to get into closures.
- jshier 6y agoClosures aren't really a functional concept, they can just be used functionally. You'll see a big reduction in closure usage when the new concurrency features ship.
- rudedogg 6y agoFor a short time, maybe around Swift 2/3, functional features got some focus, but the language moved in a different direction. The only functional features I can think of are closures, map/reduce/etc., and value types. I have a lot of criticisms about Swift but this one seems weird/outdated to me.