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83: Live From WWDC 2014 With Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Scott Simpson

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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Is Helvetica a Good Programming Language?

Swift is pragmatic it's Chris Latinarized like everything else they've done. We're gonna make regular people programmers or even just like the hippie dippy kind of academic language, he says. Marco: Swift has pointy edges I think the more you look into it the more you see some strain. He adds that none of us have really used it yet so we won't know whether it's a good language for a while.

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