Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer

Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by Pxtl on Monday June 02, 2014 @08:42PM (#7837500)

Aren't the interfaces-as-generics constraints also from c#? It seems to be c# more than anything else.

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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by keithwarren on Monday June 02, 2014 @09:19PM (#7837622)

I agree, it seems to be heavily influenced by C#. I am primarily a C# dev and reading through the code and docs I seem to have no mental friction, as opposed to ObjC which seemed to make me bang my head on my desk.

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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by chrisseaton on Monday June 02, 2014 @09:19PM (#7837624)

I think any attempt to precisely pin down where a particular language feature has come from or where a language draws inspiration from is pretty futile.

Many language constructs were invented simultaneously under different names in different languages.

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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by balakk on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @03:53AM (#7838618)

One of the Swift developers is a former F# dev:

https://twitter.com/jopamer

The language seems more closer to F# than C# to me. It's all good though!

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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by iends on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @04:24PM (#7842497)

He is also a former typescript developer.

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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by rayiner on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:32PM (#7837836)

Type parameters constrained by sets of method signatures dates to 1977: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_(programming_language). See also, Theta and some of Todd Millstien's work in the 1990s.

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