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Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4

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Re: Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4

#11

Kind of an incomplete article as there is no mention of the environmental cost. Desalination is not a magic solution. Everything is a trade off. Desalination means pumping salt back into the ocean which just compounds the problem.

I completely agree. Swift's lack of desalinization is a critical problem for users. :-)

-Chris

Re: Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4

#12

Perhaps, one should borrow message-passing as a standard language idiom, actors and pattern matching on receive from Erlang, the way Akka did, instead of copying hat async/await ugly hacks. Message passing as a core concept of a language is fundamental and necessary (given that interlop with ObjC is important), and having that and macros gives related control structures for free.

I could maybe agree with you on the message-passing thing (was about to upvote you). But then you mentioned macros.

Re: Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4

#13
I'm very happy that Apple open sourced Swift.

Chris and his crew are amazing and the vibrant community definitely helps/challenge them and will bring us things like:

  - concurrency (at least planned)
  - cyclone/rust memory model!
  - scripting 
  - syntactic sugras
Congrats!

Re: Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4

#15

Kind of an incomplete article as there is no mention of the environmental cost. Desalination is not a magic solution. Everything is a trade off. Desalination means pumping salt back into the ocean which just compounds the problem.

I completely agree. Swift's lack of desalinization is a critical problem for users. :-) -Chris

When you add syntactic sugar, you don't need so much salt.

Re: Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4

#18

Kind of an incomplete article as there is no mention of the environmental cost. Desalination is not a magic solution. Everything is a trade off. Desalination means pumping salt back into the ocean which just compounds the problem.

The people over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12191089 might have something to say about that!

Re: Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4

#19
post #4

Kind of an incomplete article as there is no mention of the environmental cost. Desalination is not a magic solution. Everything is a trade off. Desalination means pumping salt back into the ocean which just compounds the problem.

oops I think you commented the wrong thread

This seems to happen enough that I'm curious if people are using funny clients (though alikhan82 is new as of 5 hours ago) or if there's a race in the HN code. It seems improbable that someone would be typing this desalination comment into this article and not the one about Israeli desalination projects. @alikhan82 are you using the standard web page or accessing HN through some other client?

Re: Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely agree. Swift's lack of desalinization is a critical problem for users. :-) -Chris

When you add syntactic sugar, you don't need so much salt.

But it might cause cancer of the semicolon :)
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