Re:ScalarArithmetic for Swift
by jerf on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:02PM
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I don't suppose just this once that HotNewLanguage(TM) could come out with HN being flooded with "HotNewLanguage can access web pages! HotNewLanguage can now talk to MySQL! HotNewLanguage has an SQLite binding! HotNewLanguage has an MVC web framework! HotNewLanguage just got a binding to ImageMagick! HotNewLanguage now has a newer, hotter way of accessing web pages! HotNewLanguage has a binding to inotify!" for the next six months? I am willing to stipulate that Swift is a Turing-complete more-or-less general purpose programming language.
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Some developer decides to show a utility library they wrote for better interoperability between 32 and 64-bit numerical types to Hacker News and this is the reaction?
Right this very moment there's a REST library for Haskell on the front page, and Javascript libraries for various purposes show up on a semi-regular basis. Libraries, code, and frameworks for frivolous and serious purposes, for old and new languages alike, are constantly being posted to Hacker News. I honestly don't see how this is any different, except for this backlash to phantom hype which I find frankly quite puzzling.
Thanks!
Also, I might have stolen your description as it is far better than mine :)
"better interoperability between 32 and 64-bit numerical types"
Bookmark this and come back to it in a month or three.
This rant would have been so much better if it somehow captured (or at least didn't clash with) the spirit of the link, which is certainly not a celebration (or even a mere observation) of how the language does scalar arithmetic.