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Re:Swift Evolution acceptances: The big three by themartorana on Thursday March 03, 2016 @09:53PM (#11221761)
If anything, I'd argue that we're in the middle of a fantastic time for languages. I have at my disposal Go, Rust, Swift, and Nim, not to mention a re-emergence of Erlang (and birth of Elixir), Clojure on the JVM (and what the heck, Java)...

There's so much happening in languages now, it's a wonderful time to be a developer! People will always argue about which is the best, why Go needs generics, etc., but when you're a "right tool for the job" kind of developer, your toolbox is looking pretty sweet right about now.

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Re:Swift Evolution acceptances: The big three by alblue on Friday March 04, 2016 @03:22AM (#11222638)
We are indeed in a great space right now.

At QConLondon next week, I'm hosting the "Modern Native Langauges" track which will have presentations on Rust, Go, Pony and Swift:

https://qconlondon.com/track/modern-native-languages

The presentations are being recorded and will be published at http://www.infoq.com/qcon-london-2016/ over the next few months (you can see last year's conference content at http://www.infoq.com/qcon-london-2015/ if you're interested).

It's certainly a great time to be a developer with an interest in languages!

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Re:Swift Evolution acceptances: The big three by pjmlp on Friday March 04, 2016 @12:44AM (#11222251)
Sadly many of us don't get to chose what languages are used at work.
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