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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by ovao on Saturday August 11, 2018 @06:46PM (#17741953)
Which is a problem for developers who simply want to write code without having to reason about whether it’s safe to dereference something, and without having to worry about a simple oversight resulting in the programmatic equivalent of summoning Cthulhu.
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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by SlowRobotAhead on Sunday August 12, 2018 @02:48AM (#17743266)
>a problem for developers who simply want to write code without having to reason

Still not seeing the problem.

Pointers aren’t magic and aren’t hard.

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by ovao on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:22AM (#17763753)
Pointers, conceptually speaking, are not hard.

Pointers, in practice, are hard. Even C-family compilers cannot safely reason about them in many (most) cases.

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by pertymcpert on Monday August 13, 2018 @09:21AM (#17749816)
Oh boy, trying to debug some miscompile because of a subtlety in aliasing rules would make me disagree.
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