mannuch

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by mannuch 2y ago
Well I for one appreciate Swift’s focus on ergonomics and progressive disclosure. I think Rust is great, but I don’t see it as a great application-level programming language. I think it’s wonderful that Swift is trying to be more cross-plat
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by mannuch 2y ago
Rust is much less ergonomic than Swift, especially for application-level development. I like to think about it like this: Rust forces you to think about memory where Swift doesn’t. But what’s really cool is that Swift is adopting some of th
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Noncopyable Types in Swift(youtube.com)
1 points by mannuch 2y ago|0 comments
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by mannuch 2y ago
Swift has had first-class C interop for a long time. It is only C++ interop that is more experimental/in-progress.
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by mannuch 2y ago
First of all, traditional (tracing) GCs require more expensive runtimes and consume much more memory. ARCs are also much more predictable in their behavior and pave the way for greater compile time optimizations. ARC is key in providing Swi
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by mannuch 2y ago
https://github.com/apple/swift-for-wasm-examples?tab=readme-...
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Swift on Neovim(swift.org)
4 points by mannuch 2y ago|0 comments
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Swiftly: A Swift toolchain installer and manager, written in Swift(github.com)
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Swift Static Linux SDK(swift.org)
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by mannuch 2y ago
I don't think this blog post ever intended to provide a comprehensive comparison between Swift/Vapor and other languages/frameworks. I think the bigger lesson from this writeup is that we should be careful when looking at the
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by mannuch 2y ago
Swift has a pretty good VSCode extension these days actually. Check out https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sswg.swi...
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by mannuch 2y ago
Yeah I get that it's frustrating. But it is open source, and there isn't anything stopping you or anyone else from making contributions that bring the language to more places. Sure, various aspects of the project could be improved
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by mannuch 2y ago
How recent were your experiences? The server-side Swift ecosystem has matured over the past few years, with specific attention from teams at Apple. For example, regarding JSON, there has been a rewrite of the JSON encoder/decoder that
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by mannuch 3y ago
For sure! Yeah I think a lot of people don’t realize that there’s actually a ton of really interesting work going on in Swift that is very relevant to the current conversation around languages these days (i.e. memory safety, data race safet
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by mannuch 3y ago
I wonder what the author thinks about Swift’s new C++ interop story? Since the Swift compiler includes Clang, and can thus compile both your C++ and Swift into LLVM IR, without the need for an FFI later between the two, couldn’t this be the