> Hey, > > I'm inserting these opinions into almost every FP discussion, for which I'm > sorry, but I believe it's important to remind everyone that there's the rest > of us who will run away from Swift if it becomes too FP-y. > >> One of the things that I have noticed over the last year or so of working >> with Swift is a trend in the community of libriaries being written for Swift >> towards some of these "system semantics" (i.e., functional paradigms) like >> applicatives and such. > > Just as an example of a different selection bias, I saw a couple of those, > digged in for a little bit and then ran far, far away. I haven't seen any > FP-related Swift libraries after that. > > I absolutely don't have an impression that Swift has any affinity towards > being functional. To me, it embraces mutability and higher-level object > design aspects (like protocols) while taking only the bits of FP that are > actually useful (e.g. collection methods). > > I don't have any data, but I can bet that most software developers on iOS and > Mac platforms welcome that, and don't really want the move towards FP. > > A.
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