> On 19 May 2016, at 15:44, Zach Waldowski via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Much like people are expressing relief that the compatibility goals for > the language are not being dictated by specific timelines, I would be > wholly concerned if any of Swift's goals were being defined by winning > the short-term favor of business people.
The success of Swift as a language depends on the favour (short medium and long term) of business people. We have a choice here: we can either build the perfect ivory tower language that nobody uses outside of this group, or we can build a pragmatic language that is great for building real World applications in. I’d prefer we did the latter. > >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-evolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > Sincerely, > Zachary Waldowski > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
