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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by api on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:28PM (#16414617)
This is correct but sad. It's why better languages like Elm and Rust struggle to gain acceptance while inferior but well marketed efforts like Swift dominate.
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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by leshow on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:58PM (#16417946)
Woah. I love Rust and program in it super often, but I've looked at Swift also and it seems like an incredibly capable language. It has similar capabilities for algrebraic types, and a "typeclass" like approach to parametric polymorphism. Also if I'm not mistaken, Graydon, the creator of Rust works on it now.

What makes you say Swift is inferior? It seems like a huge improvement over ObjC.

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Re:Elm changed my mind about unpopular languages by michaelcampbell on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @07:23AM (#16419800)
> [What makes you say] Swift is inferior? It seems like a huge improvement over ObjC.

Not the poster, but both of those can simultaneously be true.

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