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Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred by throwaway894345 on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:27AM (#40681238)
I've never understood why people think "more features" is a flex. "Faster compile times" isn't even the primary benefit of fewer features, it's just gravy. More features, even with fast compile times, is a failure (which is probably why most of those "more expressive languages" are no longer with us unless one includes the JIT languages and--disingenuously--only measure the AOT compilation).

EDIT: wow, a downvote within literally 2 seconds of posting!

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Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred by pjmlp on Saturday June 15, 2024 @02:14PM (#40691547)
Those languages are definitely with us,

https://dlang.org/

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

https://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal-arm

https://www.eiffel.com/

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/objectada

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Re:The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred by throwaway894345 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @02:51PM (#40691845)
Do those languages command even a single percentage of marketshare combined?
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