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Re:My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift by beureum on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:36PM (#17281561)
You've hit the nail on the head, but I take the opposite conclusion.

Swift is designed around premature optimization. In my experience, improving programmer productivity is more important. The more time spent with compiler enforced busywork is less time in Instruments. The same goes for compile times. If you want people to write fast code then help them to iterate quickly.

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Re:My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift by MR4D on Monday June 11, 2018 @01:29AM (#17282041)
Great comment!!

One of the problems I have is that I love python, but I was hoping that swift would be like python on steroids. Instead, I can’t make the leap because python lets me iterate so freaking fast. If I could have something like that with the ability to incrementally improve my code and compile to a binary, I’d be happy. I thought awift would be it, but your comment helped me understand why it isn’t working for me.

Full disclosure, I’m not a full time dev, so YMMV.

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Re:My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift by valuearb on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:44PM (#17281601)
Most developer time is spent finding and fixing bugs. That’s what makes developing in Swift much more productive than in Objective C.
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Re:My misalignment with Apple's love affair with Swift by beureum on Monday June 11, 2018 @12:31AM (#17281806)
Well yeah pretty much anything is better than ObjC.
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