123: “The evolution of Swift”, with special guest Nick Lockwood
Swift by Sundell
Swift
Swift has a very powerful runtime, but it's mostly not exposed in the public API at the moment. So I'd love to see some of that kind of cool objective C dynamism, you know, coming back. There are languages like Rust who have an interesting mechanism for writing compile time functions which can be evaluated at compile time. Swift could become almost kind of a hybrid between like a static analyzer and a macro system where you could introspect your code at compile time as well.
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