Comment by thomassmith65

Comment by thomassmith65 7 hours ago

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I lived and breathed Swift for the first five or six years of its existence. When people compliment it, I assume they haven't used it long enough to hate it.

Swift is a mix of great features, miserable features, and... every other feature that someone on Evolution dreamt up (with the exception of those that would fix the miserable features)

Swift is unique among high-level languages in that the mental effort required to do many simple things rivals that of a low-level language.

ks2048 7 hours ago

I think you have to give some examples.

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  • thomassmith65 7 hours ago

    It's been a while, but the one I remember with the most horror was dealing with Enums, and Enum payloads. Since Swift is statically-typed, many 'type union' situations end up becoming difficult problems. The question usually boils down to thinking about choosing one of (a) Enum with Payload (b) Generic (c) Type erasure. Nearly anything technically is do-able, but I wasted many hours (ie: repeatedly, not until I figured out the 'right way' for every situation) deliberating over how!

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