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Lots of languages, including Java and Javascript, have been described as being "in the C family", but this papers over a whole lot of important details. Swift i
by kibwen 4y ago
Lots of languages, including Java and Javascript, have been described as being "in the C family", but this papers over a whole lot of important details. Swift is a low-ish-level imperative-ish language with C-ish syntax.
- obliquely 4y agoYou could just as plausibly say that Swift is a high-ish-level functional-ish language with a modern syntax. Whereas C blows up at runtime, Swift nags-and-whines at compile time - in that way it's very unlike C. All that said "in the C family" is highly ambiguous at best...
- BuckRogers 4y agoWhen I hear that C family languages are no longer to be utilized, I’m assuming they mean memory unsafe options. C & C++. Everything else is just as good of an idea as the next. C family is the most successful language paradigm in the history of software. Abandoning those constructs would be suicide. Nothing would get done.