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		rubiquity on March 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How big should a programming language be? I completely agree. It feels like the designers of Swift gazed into the C++ abyss too much. I really wanted it to be an ergonomic systems language. Zig now fills that void for me.

b3morales on March 25, 2023 | [–]

Some core designers of Swift, at least Doug Gregor, John McCall, Dave Abrahams, were very much part of the C++ world. Abrahams mentions Gregor's proposals for C++ here: https://youtu.be/6JYAXADQmNQ?t=1157

Conscat on March 25, 2023 | [–]

Yet still Swift can't even get move semantics. :/

saagarjha on March 25, 2023 | [–]

They’re working on it; it’s a complicated feature.

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