JeffKilborn

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   by JeffKilborn 11y ago

   Have you seen the new Swift 2.0 benchmarks that they discussed at WWDC 15? It's now getting extremely fast. It won't be long before it surpasses Rust. Anyway, if 5% improvement is all that Rust will have over Swift, it's as d
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   by JeffKilborn 11y ago

   >Go has to contend with Swift. Rust does not. During the WWDC 2015 opening keynote, Federighi explicitly stated that Swift's a "systems programming language" and they even say it in the documentation: > It is the first
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   by JeffKilborn 11y ago

   >It's missing its biggest features. Like what? Please do enlighten us.
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   by JeffKilborn 11y ago

   >Rust will deal with it by being swifter than Swift. By how much? Will extra language codebase justify the speed increase (if any)? Say you're developing some mobile app, why wouldn't you want to use a single unified codebase f
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   by JeffKilborn 11y ago

   >Swift is an applications programming language where the runtime is non-optional (at least AFAICT) and memory is managed dynamically. No, it's optional if you don't need to interact with Obj-C frameworks (ie. Cocoa). And memory
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   by JeffKilborn 11y ago

   While I find Rust interesting, how exactly will Rust deal with a 900lb gorilla that's about to get released from a cage? Opensource Swift is only few months away and it already has a much bigger user base and is backed by the biggest c