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I really don’t like that we have the overhead of a new keyword called actor

• kyberias 6y ago
  What kind of overhead do you think a keyword could bring?
  • ardit33 6y ago
    it is called language verbosity... over time it ads up and creates a difficult language to work with, and hard for beginners to start with
    • skohan 6y ago
      I actually think one of Swift's strengths is that it takes progressive disclosure of complexity seriously. It's possible to write a hello world which is no more complex than the python version, and gradually learn about the more esoteric concepts as you need them. By contrast, a language like Rust is far more parsimonious with introducing keywords, but I think I encountered 10 new concepts in the first month I was working with the language, all of which I had to understand at some level in order to progress with my project.