What's new in Swift 3.1

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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