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You know what I really love most about

2024-09-04 00:15:02.428703+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

You know what I really love most about computing? That rather than building simpler and more elegant programming languages and interfaces, we're building Byzantine tools to automate the process of building inelegant code that requires fragile runtimes.

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#Comment Re: You know what I really love most about made: 2024-09-04 17:08:47.28494+02 by: markd [edit history]

Swift kiddies: "LOL at Java's static void main thing. SO THROWBACK"

public nonisolated mutating func run() async throws enters the chat room

#Comment Re: You know what I really love most about made: 2024-09-04 22:30:44.323288+02 by: Dan Lyke

Yes. I mean, the boilerplate that Objective-C has accumulated is crufty, but it's not clear to me that Swift's abstractions over that runtime are an improvement...

#Comment Re: You know what I really love most about made: 2024-09-05 20:18:42.462891+02 by: markd

ObjC is a small part of swift-land. It's a "C++ for folks who were tired of C++", so class-based polymorphism is vtable based unless you're interoperating with objc or explicitly decorate it with a @dynamic tag. Swift is a huge and complex language, and getting more so every year.

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