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Re:What’s New in Swift 5.2 by kbenson on Thursday February 06, 2020 @02:12PM (#22259227)
> I love writing Swift for myself, but I write it in a pretty boring way. When I have to work with people who get creative and clever, it's awful.

I could (and do) say the same thing about Perl.

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Re:What’s New in Swift 5.2 by zionic on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:08PM (#22260949)
I don't think anyone in the Swift community wants the Perl's reputation as a write-only language, but changes like callAsFunction are how we get there.
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