What’s new in Swift 6.2
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What’s new in Swift 6.2
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Re: What’s new in Swift 6.2
#2Do you try to put everything on the main actor to dramatically reduce your debugging time?
Re: What’s new in Swift 6.2
#3I have not looked at Swift since I last wrote some around maybe v3. I hear that it's generally not a competitor to Rust, and is only really useful within the Apple ecosystem. Why is it not more useful as a C++ alternative, since I think that's kind of what the initial goal was? Is it just that non-Apple support is new-ish and not yet matured? Or a more fundamental issue?
Re: What’s new in Swift 6.2
#4I have not looked at Swift since I last wrote some around maybe v3. I hear that it's generally not a competitor to Rust, and is only really useful within the Apple ecosystem. Why is it not more useful as a C++ alternative, since I think that's kind of what the initial goal was? Is it just that non-Apple support is new-ish and not yet matured? Or a more fundamental issue?
Apparently Arc Browser is written in Swift: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcBrowser/comments/18j39g3/why_arc...
Re: What’s new in Swift 6.2
#5> So, rather than writing
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> @Test("Strip HTML tags from string") func stripHTMLTagsFromString() {...}
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> @Test func `Strip HTML tags from string`() {...}
Maybe I'm just really new at programming, but this seems like an absolutely bad feature, and the example actually perfectly proves it:
You really want to name a function "Hello World!" instead of helloWorld, just so your stack traces can pass a 5th grade English class exam?
Re: What’s new in Swift 6.2
#6I have not looked at Swift since I last wrote some around maybe v3. I hear that it's generally not a competitor to Rust, and is only really useful within the Apple ecosystem. Why is it not more useful as a C++ alternative, since I think that's kind of what the initial goal was? Is it just that non-Apple support is new-ish and not yet matured? Or a more fundamental issue?
Generally only useful within the Apple ecosystem is definitely inaccurate.
An example: https://vapor.codes/
The problem is that people only think it’s generally useful in the Apple ecosystem.
Re: What’s new in Swift 6.2
#7> So, rather than writing > > @Test("Strip HTML tags from string") func stripHTMLTagsFromString() {...} > > we can instead write > > @Test func `Strip HTML tags from string`() {...} Maybe I'm just really new at programming, but this seems like an absolutely bad feature, and the example actually perfectly proves it: You really want to name a function "Hello World!" instead of helloWorld, just so your stack traces can…
It just seems to me that this is the exactly wrong way to solve a programming problem. If the problem boils down to "I want some variables (almost always test function names) to be more human readable", the solution should never be "hey let's add this feature to the core language and make identifiers use any ASCII string! I dunno, maybe I'm wrong here and being overly critical. But to me it just screams "Swift has lost the plot."
Re: What’s new in Swift 6.2
#8I have not looked at Swift since I last wrote some around maybe v3. I hear that it's generally not a competitor to Rust, and is only really useful within the Apple ecosystem. Why is it not more useful as a C++ alternative, since I think that's kind of what the initial goal was? Is it just that non-Apple support is new-ish and not yet matured? Or a more fundamental issue?
There’s a level of self fulfilling prophecy here: people don’t use Swift off Apple platforms because there isn’t a critical mass of people using Swift off Apple platforms.
But that said it can be frustrating. A lot of the documentation and tutorials you find out there assume you’re on an Apple platform where, e.g. Foundation APIs are available. And the direction of the language, the features being added etc, very clearly serve Apple’s goals.
(Side note: IBM was an early adopter of Swift off-platform but then stepped back: https://forums.swift.org/t/december-12th-2019/31735)
Re: What’s new in Swift 6.2
#9Do you try to put everything on the main actor to dramatically reduce your debugging time?
Everything probably already is or should be
Re: What’s new in Swift 6.2
#10> So, rather than writing > > @Test("Strip HTML tags from string") func stripHTMLTagsFromString() {...} > > we can instead write > > @Test func `Strip HTML tags from string`() {...} Maybe I'm just really new at programming, but this seems like an absolutely bad feature, and the example actually perfectly proves it: You really want to name a function "Hello World!" instead of helloWorld, just so your stack traces can…
Naming things is hard. If you can more accurately describe your test and not think of a separate name for it I'm all for it.
Also I like the backticks better than what zig came up with: @"404"