On 12/3/15 12:56 PM, tcak wrote:
On Thursday, 3 December 2015 at 17:13:49 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
https://github.com/apple/swift
Everytime I get excited about another programming language, I notice
that it lacks some nice features of D, and I become sad suddenly. Even
on C#, there is nothing like giving the type of a variable like "typeof(
another_variable_or_enum ) var;". C# and Java programmers are not aware
of what things they are missing :D D lacks some features as well, but I
do not want to talk about them here. Some people in the forum are
getting into defence and attack mode immediately.
The truth is, swift is orders of magnitude better than Objective C.
I have gotten used to the nullable API, though it sometimes seems more
clunky than useful. While it succeeds in preventing me from incorrectly
using nil objects, it sometimes results in my code not executing because
I wrapped it in an if-let! Apple's API is still rather verbose and hard
to discover, but that is not swift's fault.
And the lack of semi-colons has poisoned me from writing syntactically
valid lines in D :)
I miss D's algorithms and range API when working with swift. A lot. I've
tried to use their sequence API, but it's very confusing.
-Steve
