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Re:Swift: Challenges and Opportunity for Language and Compil... by chmaynard on Sunday December 18, 2016 @08:02AM (#13205668)
Could someone define "compiler crash" and explain what it looks like? Does Xcode itself crash?
Re:Swift: Challenges and Opportunity for Language and Compil... by joshstaiger on Sunday December 18, 2016 @08:08AM (#13205683)
Your code stops compiling with a pretty unhelpful error message. Y'know, like Segmentation Fault 11, and a stack trace into the swift compiler sourcecode if you're lucky.

XCode doesn't always crash (though it does, frequently), but syntax highlighting goes away at the first hint of an issue.