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Re: Need for Swift
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Re: Need for Swift


  • Subject: Re: Need for Swift
  • From: Charles Srstka via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 20:25:08 -0500

> On Oct 16, 2019, at 2:38 PM, Jean-Daniel via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Le 16 oct. 2019 à 11:49, Stephane Sudre via Cocoa-dev
>> <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> a écrit :
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 2:26 PM Sandor Szatmari via Cocoa-dev
>> <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>> But honestly, I don’t have enough Swift experience to know if you can write
>>> bad Swift code.
>>
>> I'm just reading Swift code here and there and it's my personal
>> opinion that 75% of the Swift code I read is bad code.
>
> That matches my observation whatever the language is.
> This is not something related to Swift. This is just how most developers
> works.

+1

>> Why do Swift developers think it's mandatory to write code that is illegible?
>> Is Swift mainly used by freelances or consultants that will not have
>> to maintain the software?
>
> Not more than other projects with language designed to be easy to use and
> usable by as many people as possible.
>
> You won’t find as much bad C++ and Rust code because the complexity of the
> languages filter out casual developers.

And it’s certainly not as if there’s not a lot of terrible Objective-C code out
there.

Charles

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References: 
 >Re: Need for Swift (From: Alex Zavatone via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Need for Swift (From: Sandor Szatmari via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Need for Swift (From: Stephane Sudre via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Need for Swift (From: Jean-Daniel via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>)

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