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Re:Swift System Is Now Open Source by nsonha on Friday September 25, 2020 @05:55PM (#24594521)
I think the person meant in terms of identifiable trait/philosophy/focus. Swift and c# and maybe even kotlin are languages that are just a big piles of feature and does not really have an principle behind its design like stupid simple of golang or lazyness of haskel
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Re:Swift System Is Now Open Source by TylerE on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:45PM (#24595178)
at a time when every language is trying to be edgy/different, it'd be nice to have an actual language that is comfortable and boring without being dumb.

Seems like a viable niche to me.

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Re:Swift System Is Now Open Source by nsonha on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:43PM (#24596015)
this is not a boring language, it has a lot of complexity. I prefer simple but interesting language, f# comes to mind.
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Re:Swift System Is Now Open Source by TylerE on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:51PM (#24596041)
Boring in the sense of not being, well, Rust, or a lisp, or an ML derivative or...
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Re:Swift System Is Now Open Source by nsonha on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:56PM (#24596059)
The people that don't like edgy PL features normally also prefer a clean and simple language with orthogonal design not the big-pile-of-features kind of language though.
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