Comment by nixpulvis

Comment by nixpulvis 7 hours ago

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> Swift takes Rust’s ideas and hides them in C-like syntax.

This example doesn't show me any meaningful difference, and Rust also let's you attach functionality to enums.

isodev 7 hours ago

Swift tends to overuse enums, for example people would use them instead of namespaces or when they want a function but don’t want to create a class or a struct which in my opinion has always felt like a work-around for language deficiencies.

kibwen 6 hours ago

It also assumes that "C-like syntax" is a desirable thing. Many of the worst parts of Rust syntax (and Swift syntax, and Java syntax, and Javascript syntax, and...) are things it took from C.