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Re:My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift by saghm on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:17PM (#17281485)
> IMO Swift is a language written by a compiler guy to solve compiler problems.

I'm not convinced; the examples you give require _more_ work for the compiler writer, not less. In general, a stronger type systems means that the compiler has to do more.

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Re:My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift by jkulubya on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:45PM (#17281607)
I see it in the sense that if the target for both compilers is to produce a correct program, then that target is much easier to achieve with more information (and less assumptions) passed in the source code by the programmer (ie Swift).
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Re:My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift by mpweiher on Monday June 11, 2018 @02:20AM (#17282214)
> require _more_ work for the compiler writer

Exactly. In Objective-C, the compiler can't do much, which is kind of a bummer if you are a compiler guy. Chris is a compiler guy.

Consider Swift a kind of public works program for your local compiler team.

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