> From the point of view of language geek, I prefer Swift's approach, as it is closer to PL/I, ALGOL and Wirth's linage of languages. That's surprising, I reme

> From the point of view of language geek, I prefer Swift's approach, as it is closer to PL/I, ALGOL and Wirth's linage of languages. That's surprising, I remember that one of the specificities of Pascal and its descendants are its very fast compilation time. Swift seems to be at the exact opposite end of that spectrum. I'm not sure if it's the type inference, the frontend, LLVM or something else though.