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It's amazing how many wheels need to be reinvented every time somebody introduces yet another language.

• mg74 12y ago
  ServerSwift! SwiftPOSIX! SwiftToJS! SwiftGTK! KSwift! WinSwift! SwiftCurse!
  • rabino 12y ago
    and the most important of all, 2048Swift, which of course happened already. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7845441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7845441
• shawnps 12y ago
  Do you mean the author is reinventing the wheel because this already exists in other programming languages, or because there are many existing GUI libraries like this in Go already? It's likely there are many people who are most comfortable writing Go recently so I don't understand how this is a problem.
• feadog 12y ago
  Some folks at Microsoft were trying to circumvent this with Singularity OS being based on something like CLR. Then everything could dynamically interoperate with everything on a programming language level. http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/
  • andlabs 12y ago
    If I recall correctly, the point of Singularity wasn't to have a platform base where all programming languages shared the same infrastructure, but rather to have an operating system that ran (almost) entirely in "managed code" (the .net framework's safe-execution system). .net itself is what you're thinking of.