What’s New in C# 7.0

Re:What’s New in C# 7.0 by wsc981 on Thursday August 25, 2016 @05:53AM (#12357880)

I'd say Swift is more or less in line with C# with regards to functionality. Many new features added to C# seem to already exist in Swift. Swift could use some async/await mechanism en sometimes it's a bit annoying to typecast simple types for calculations, but otherwise Swift is a really sweet language to work with.

Nonetheless C# is a nice language. I enjoy writing C# code, just as I enjoy writing Swift code.

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Re:What’s New in C# 7.0 by apetrovic on Thursday August 25, 2016 @06:31AM (#12357988)

Swift is my daily driver for a year and some, I love the language and I'm having much fun working in it, it have some great ideas (nullability, emphasis on value types, protocol extensions), but calling it "more or less in line with C#" is still a bit of stretch.

(For starters, Swift desperately needs to include most of the points from "Generic Manifesto" to be comparable with more mature languages like C#. Not being able to return a generic interface from a function is just silly)

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Re:What’s New in C# 7.0 by hacker_9 on Thursday August 25, 2016 @06:06AM (#12357918)

I'd disagree with you to be honest. Swift is still in it's infancy, and while it copied many of it's features from CSharp, it did so poorly and even now they continue to make breaking changes to their standard with each update.

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Re:What’s New in C# 7.0 by 72deluxe on Thursday August 25, 2016 @11:08AM (#12359561)

Yes I have noticed this. It is interesting observing the changes to Obj-C just to keep up with the developments in Swift-land, when Swift itself is changing so frequently.

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