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There has been some community work on Windows, no official promises but IIRC there is already very basic support.

Here’s your explanation: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ErrorHandlin... There has been discussion about statically typed errors on the evolution mailing list — som…

Does saying 'ARC' not work for you? :) And the Swift runtime is pretty minimal, mostly used for storing dynamic type information, dispatching protocol methods, generating (unspecia…

Yes, the swift runtime does stuff like heap allocation & reference counting for classes, type introspection (including `as` casts), error handling, as well as generating instances …

You can use the zip function to loop through 2 collections. `for (l, r) in zip(c1, c2) {` It is not simply motivated by making code concise, I would say `for num in collection.reve…

Yeah, I still wouldn’t say that c++ is “one of the most widely-used languages for writing native apps” for OS X. And internally apple use other languages a lot, but frameworks like…

Most apple platform apps are written in mostly objc or Swift and not C++, I wouldn’t say it is one of the most widely used languages on these platforms by any means. The Cocoa SDK …