What's new in Swift 3.1

Re:What's new in Swift 3.1 by melling on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:26PM (#13495375)

Yes, I understand that the conversion is in some ways more difficult because there's a larger legacy code base. However, the conversion has already been extended 5 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7581434

A decade long conversion is fine if that is what the community wants. There are certain drawbacks to this.

I simply like the aggressiveness that Apple has taken. The community can put "all its wood behind one arrow".

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Re:What's new in Swift 3.1 by hota_mazi on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:58PM (#13495619)

I like the aggressiveness too but it's pretty common for very young languages because the cost is so low. Swift is not doing anything new there.

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Re:What's new in Swift 3.1 by melling on Thursday January 26, 2017 @05:45PM (#13496040)

Really? I've been programming for almost 35 years and I can't think of many languages that made such big changes. Java, for example, is still compatible with 1.0.

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Re:What's new in Swift 3.1 by hota_mazi on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:39PM (#13496449)

Java is one language among hundreds that have come out these past twenty years.

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Re:What's new in Swift 3.1 by melling on Thursday January 26, 2017 @08:04PM (#13496897)

Yes, I know that. You could provide your examples of some other popular languages that we all know about. Sure, it's easy to change a language no one uses, but when you've got hundreds of thousands of users, it's much harder.

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