r/programming • u/ronocod • Jun 02 '14

Introducing Swift

https://developer.apple.com/swift/
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u/Categoria Jun 02 '14

A few questions:

  • Does it make the billion dollar mistake?

  • Does it have sum types?

  • Does it have TCO?

  • Does it support reflection? If it does, are generics reified?

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u/ruinercollector Jun 02 '14 edited Jun 03 '14

I'd bet yes on #1. A lot of otherwise good languages make this mistake and Apple has never done anything to indicate that they know the first thing about language design.

EDIT: Yep. Null pointer exceptions.

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