Chris Lattner on Swift

Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by mikeash on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @08:03PM (#7843395)

I've been seeing much the same from programmers invested in the Apple ecosystem who will likely be spending all day writing nothing but Swift within a year.

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Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by austinz on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @08:33PM (#7843471)

Lots of people are having a hard time understanding the difference between dynamic typing and static typing with type inference.

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Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by mikeash on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @08:53PM (#7843519)

Definitely. I suppose it's understandable if this is your first exposure to type inference. Superficially it looks exactly like the "assign anything to anything" languages like Python or JavaScript.

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