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We could’ve gotten something more like a simpler Swift if some attention was paid to state of the art in language research and implementation. No nil, composabl
by dontlaugh 3y ago
We could’ve gotten something more like a simpler Swift if some attention was paid to state of the art in language research and implementation. No nil, composable errors, integrated generics, sum types, etc.
- pjmlp 3y agoIf you like language archeology, compare K&R C with the state of systems programming languages outside Bell Labs, in regards to safety and language features, since JOVIAL was introduced in 1958. Hence why there is a certain irony towards the opinion UNIX is done, yet the efforts towards language design are as they are. Plan 9, Inferno and Limbo came to be, and that was it.