https://swift.org/about/ <https://swift.org/about/> has some pretty good verbiage about this. In particular:
"Swift is a safe language." in that the obvious thing should be safe, and unsafe things should require a bit of reaching. That's more important to me than a lot of other things that happen to be true. (I've been sneakily saying this in person every time someone asks me, but I guess I can say it out loud here. Please don't call it an "official Apple opinion" or "official swift.org opinion", though. It's "one Swift compiler developer's opinion". :-) The official swift.org opinion is how it's phrased on swift.org.) Jordan > On Jun 8, 2016, at 6:18, Brandon Knope via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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