Re:Swift 6
by cageface on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:14PM
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Ok but these are mainly academic research languages. Swift has the backing of the most valuable company in the world and is what they're pushing as the right way to develop for their platform.
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Haskell is definitely a real industrial language!
Many of the other languages in the formally verified/dependent type space are academic, but there's government interest in things like Ada too because they don't want their planes to crash. Couldn't say how good its error messages are though.
Re:Swift 6
by paperplatter on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:06AM
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I've seriously used Erlang for a while, and Haskell looks kinda similar. Ingenious ideas there, cool features, but in the end it's cumbersome to use. So I can see why these are niche and wouldn't consider them next to big ones like Swift or C++.