> On Apr 10, 2017, at 7:22 PM, Sean Heber via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Apr 10, 2017, at 11:38 AM, Daniel Duan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Using tools isn't a bad thing. Designing language assuming users are using >> tools with certain capability is kind of a bad thing. > > I see this sentiment on this list a lot. Where does it come from? Is there > any supporting research? What drives it?
I personally am one of those people advocating not to design it around an IDE for these reasons: - GitHub (or other SCM) - support for other OSs (as Swift is designed not just for Mac/iOS) - non-Xcode IDEs. Believe it or not, from time to time I reach for other apps, such as CodeRunner. > > (I don’t mean to pick on Daniel - I’m curious about this overall from anyone > that has sources. It has become such a prevailing refrain at times that I > think it’d be best for everyone if we knew if it was even true!) > > l8r > Sean > > _______________________________________________ > 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
