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Re:Static typing will not save us from broken software by mpweiher on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:43AM (#12777403)
The reason Swift has tooling is that it has a $600 billion company paying for that tooling. Said tooling plugs into Xcode/clang, which is an IDE for, primarily, Objective-C, which happens to be a dynamically typed programming language (with optional static typing).

For my own Objective-Smalltalk, I added code-completion to both the REPL and a few IDEs fairly trivially.

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Re:Static typing will not save us from broken software by overgard on Monday October 24, 2016 @11:09AM (#12779463)
Jetbrains has a Swift IDE, and they're not a $600 billion company.
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