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Re:Swift System Is Now Open Source by saagarjha on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:24PM (#24603712)
Ok, I'll summarize myself once more and then stop trying: Swift is not perfect, but it's way better than Java. Some generally useful features are missing that were identified early but were put on the backseat for now because other things took priority, but they might be finally be coming now. SwiftUI is wrong because it is trying to use language features that don't exist, ones you think are "obvious" to include but I say are not necessarily "better".

The reason I suspect trolling is that you have repeatedly taken my comments out of context, glommed them with other things that are not related, and then responded to that strawman, plus created what I can only refer to as "bait" because I have to waste my time responding to them when I could be having a much more productive conversation. So tell me, would you rather talk about how Swift's type system is the same as Java, how the compiler is designed by incompetent fools who rush out releases, and how any language that doesn't include the three features you brought up is automatically stupid, or maybe we can discuss this more productively from the viewpoint of "why didn't Swift include these things I like?" or "was SwiftUI poorly designed if it is trying to create new parts of the language out of thin air to support itself?" or "has Swift prioritized the wrong set of features?"

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