Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
by throwaway894345 on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:21AM
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Java's compile times are "insanely fast" because it's not actually compiling to native code, it's compiling to JVM byte code which is actually compiled at runtime. And it is one of the rare languages that manages to be more expressive than Go while also being quite a lot less ergonomic. (:
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Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
by kaba0 on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:52AM
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Go is significantly more verbose and just recently can one implement a goddamn map without hardcoding it in the compiler. Besides all the beautiful if err unreadable “error handling” that makes it all too easy to silently ignore errors, and design mistakes like defer being function scoped, it’s hardly something I would call ergonomic.
Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
by throwaway894345 on Friday June 14, 2024 @11:36AM
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I'm not claiming it's ergonomic (I don't think it is especially ergonomic, as I indicated in my previous comment), I'm claiming it's more ergonomic than Java. That said, it's always struck me as silly that people associate ergonomics with character counts. I don't think code golf is especially ergonomic either.