Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram...
by obliquely on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:00PM
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You could just as plausibly say that Swift is a high-ish-level functional-ish language with a modern syntax. Whereas C blows up at runtime, Swift nags-and-whines at compile time - in that way it's very unlike C. All that said "in the C family" is highly ambiguous at best...
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Re:Apple Announces Full Swift Rewrite of the Foundation Fram...
by BuckRogers on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:20PM
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When I hear that C family languages are no longer to be utilized, I’m assuming they mean memory unsafe options. C & C++.
Everything else is just as good of an idea as the next. C family is the most successful language paradigm in the history of software. Abandoning those constructs would be suicide. Nothing would get done.