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Re:The State of SwiftUI by alexashka on Monday September 14, 2020 @04:53PM (#24475026)
> it's actually rather hard to ensure decidability

How is it that a single person named Edwin Brady can think of, implement and have a programming language with a decidable type system that is more complex than Swift, working on it part-time?

I'm sorry, I consider a company worth a trillion dollars, sitting on billions of dollars it doesn't know what to spend on, that spends billions per year on R&D, to know the basic properties of the type system their most actively developed programming language uses.

That's just me.

Re:The State of SwiftUI by plorkyeran on Monday September 14, 2020 @05:31PM (#24475392)
By focusing entirely on the type system rather than building a programming language usable for actually building applications. Idris is a wonderful research language, but is awful as a language to write production software in.