Re:Swift Proposal: Move Function
by pjmlp on Thursday July 28, 2022 @01:04PM
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I do and he says exactly the same thing.
>...the goal was really to build something that you could write firmware in or that you could do scripting in, that you could write mobile apps or server apps or low-level systems code, and have it be great at all of those, not just some terrible compromise.
Feel free to actually listen to the episode as well, and also read/listen the sections on how Swift is a complete Objective-C replacement without the bad C parts.
>...the goal was really to build something that you could write firmware in or that you could do scripting in, that you could write mobile apps or server apps or low-level systems code, and have it be great at all of those, not just some terrible compromise.
Taken from https://oleb.net/2019/chris-lattner-swift-origins/ to save listing to the whole interview
Feel free to actually listen to the episode as well, and also read/listen the sections on how Swift is a complete Objective-C replacement without the bad C parts.