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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by 0xCMP on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:16PM (#30419493)
But what they're referring to is that none of the code in that is hard to understand... unlike in C/C++. This is like of like the same idea behind Go. You make the language simple and straight forward and even though there may be a LOT of code the code will be be easy to understand.

And I would add that Go is obviously easier than Java here by design, but anyone could write a horribly over-abstracted Hello World or Fizz Buzz in any language given the motivation.

Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by azth on Monday February 28, 2022 @01:49AM (#30497084)
> And I would add that Go is obviously easier than Java here by design

Nothing in golang makes it easier to understand compared to Java by design, and the opposite is actually true (e.g. no proper enums, no records, no pattern matching, etc.) make it more verbose and harder to get to the underlying logic.

That being said, you should see some of my employer's golang code with their web framework that they wrote and the 80+ line stack traces.