My favorite is that Swift is an opinionated language :P "We intentionally want Swift to have a common “center of gravity” and be an “opinionated” language, rather than fall to the “design by committee” approach that leads to a watered-down design” This was from Chris Lattner
Reference: Re: [Review] Replace `typealias` keyword with `associatedtype` for associated ty <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/2040/match=opinionated> Brandon > On Jun 8, 2016, at 9:03 AM, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am (somewhat unexpectedly) teaching a class in Swift/iOS starting later > this week, and I was hoping to get a couple of quotes to share with my > students from the community (and ideally a core team member) about what they > believe the general philosophy behind Swift is… > > I have heard things like: > “Swift is a practical language” > “Swift is the first Protocol Oriented Language” > > How would you define Swift in your own words? > > Thanks, > Jon > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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