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Sorry to hear that, I wouldn't bet anything on Apple but the core language contains a lot of good ideas imho.

• moooo99 2y ago
  I’ve spent some time looking into swift as well and was quite pleased with the overall language, it really contained some really good ideas. This makes it a bit of a shame that it is tied so closely to Apple
• nwienert 2y ago
  Seems lovely but headed in a Scala-like bloated direction. The "too complex" type issues were really bad last I tried. And one of my biggest gripes is the way you can extend things from anywhere else, easy to cause a mess.
  • metaltyphoon 2y ago
    Swift is getting out of hand after Chris left and Swift UI was introduced. The language has over 210 keywords… thats crazy
    • saagarjha 2y ago
      Keywords are a bad way to judge a language.
      • metaltyphoon 2y ago
        Not saying you are wrong but tell me why it would be a good idea to have hundreds of keywords for a programming language.
        • saagarjha 2y ago
          Because not having hundreds of keywords means that either you have some parts of the language that are "this has a special meaning please don't touch" (double underscores are good enough, right guys?) or "we reassigned 10 different things to the same keyword to keep the number low" (ahem, static).
  • codr7 2y ago
    Hm, I have to admit I have the same feeling. But it is a shame, because many of the ideas are good imho.