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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by Tloewald on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @09:57AM (#7840179)
A lot of the features allegedly inspired by C# actually come directly from Objective-C. It's a decent discussion (I also skimmed the manual front to back after the presentation) but it's sad the writer appears ignorant of how advanced a language Objective-C is/was, especially since it significantly predated C++, let alone Java and C#.
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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by teh_klev on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @10:18AM (#7840311)
Sure, but can you explain which features rather than leaving off at the author is "ignorant".

Are there features in Objective-C available now that weren't present back in the early days? Perhaps this is what the author means? Has Objective-C drawn inspiration from newer languages such as C# or Java?

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Re:Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer by groovy2shoes on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @10:38AM (#7840442)
According to Wikipedia, both C++ and Objective-C "appeared in" 1983. I otherwise share your sentiment.
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