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Re:Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down by The_rationalist on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:36PM (#26121181)
Swift has no traced garbage collector which means you cannot represent circular data structure/references. Also swift support for interfaces (protocol) is sub-par with today standards
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Re:Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down by andrekandre on Saturday February 13, 2021 @04:47AM (#26122559)
> Also swift support for interfaces (protocol) is sub-par with today standards

interesting, what could be added/changed to make it better?

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Re:Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down by The_rationalist on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:42AM (#26123832)
No support for default implementation methods. No support for generics in protocol.

There might be workarounds but for a newcomer, this is a red flag of reinventing a basic and universal construct (interfaces) in a sub-par one, this show a dangerous mentality from the swift vm devs, what else did they wrongfully reinvent in a sub-par way?

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Re:Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down by aplummer on Saturday February 13, 2021 @02:38PM (#26126078)
As the other commenter pointed out, default implementations (with genetic constraints!) are supported, they actually my favourite swift feature.
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Re:Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down by liuliu on Saturday February 13, 2021 @11:09AM (#26124390)
There is support for default implementation method in protocol for a while now.

Generics are supported through associated types.

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