Why Rubyist Will Love Swift

Re:Why Rubyist Will Love Swift by tendom on Friday June 13, 2014 @12:04PM (#7889498)

Scala, yes, but not C++ at all. Indirectly from C#, perhaps (and there is a fair bit of that), but there is very little that borrows from C++ at the language level.

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Re:Why Rubyist Will Love Swift by Glide on Friday June 13, 2014 @12:34PM (#7889654)

Oh I would love to see a write up comparing it with Scala idioms. As a person who has done C# for a while a lot of idioms translate very well to Swift.

The if let x = whatever {} syntax in Swift is damn brilliant after looking at a ton of C# code with the as check.

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Re:Why Rubyist Will Love Swift by nileshk on Friday June 13, 2014 @01:18PM (#7889861)

Here is a Swift vs Scala syntax comparison:

https://leverich.github.io/swiftislikescala/

And also, a comparison to C#:

http://pietschsoft.com/post/2014/06/07/Basic-Comparison-of-C...

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Re:Why Rubyist Will Love Swift by tendom on Friday June 13, 2014 @12:46PM (#7889716)

I agree, there are more than a few features I'd like to see C# adopt from this, and that's a big one. Proper string interpolation is another.

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