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0 pointspajuc1y ago0 comments

So they didn't focus actively on good error messages and fast compile times when designing a new language?

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If we have to flatten it to "they chose and knew exactly what choice they were making", then there's no light to be shed. Sure. That's stupid.

Its just as stupid to insist on that being the case.

If that's not convincing to you on its merits, consider another aspect, you expressly were inviting conversation on why that wasn't the case

pajucOP1y ago

Why is there no light to be shed?

This is a perfectly reasonable question to ask. And a straight simple answer might be that no, they didn't. Or not initially but later it was too late. Or here are the circumstances in leadership, historical contexts that led to it and we find those in other projects as well.

That would be interesting to hear.

refulgentis1y ago

I've kind of lost the plot myself. XD The whole concept seems a bit complicated to me.

You're holding out on responding constructively until someone on the Swift team responds?

Better to just avoid boorishness, or find another way to word your invitation to the people who you will accept discussion from.

I wouldn't go out of my way to engage in the comments section with someone who calls me stupid repeatedly, based on an imagined analysis of my thought process being that of a small child, then refuses to engage with any discussion that doesn't start with yes, my team was stupid, we did actively choose awful error messages and really bad compile times for pretty syntax.

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