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30 Jul 2014

Swift Is a Really Good Thing and a Step Back

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about the upsides (it will help advance the industry at large) and downsides (its disturbing lack of dynamism) of Swift.

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Rejected Episode Titles:

  • Some U.N. Charter Thing
  • Always One Step Ahead
  • C++++
  • C++ Without the C
  • Crazy Amounts of Duplication
  • Raised the Collective IQ of Programmers
  • Definitely Kind of a Puff Piece
  • We Have This Myopia
  • Maybe He’s the New Rumsfeld
  • The Weirdly-Named BACON Conference
  • There’s No Message Sending in Swift!
  • That’s Where the “V” in V-Table Comes From
  • The Entire Compile-Time Business
  • It’s Delayed Binding
  • Everything Was Slow in the 10.0 Days
  • It Makes Software Fragile
  • He’s Got His Own Reality Distortion Field
  • You’re in a World of Pain
  • I’m on Team Alan Kay
  • They’re Not Show-Stoppers
  • A Horrible Temptation for Most People
  • Jamming Stuff into a Giant, Static Codebase
  • C4 All Over Again
  • It Already Is Too Late
  • We Don’t Get a Vote