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117: “Swift 5.7, generics, and the road to Swift 6”, with special guest Ben Cohen

Swift by Sundell

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Swift's New Built in Support for Regular Expressions

Swift's new built in support for regular expressions and so on. So i want to start by asking you, why would you say that this kind of focus on ergonomics and expressivity is important? And how would you says that these new enhancements go beyond simply being, quote unquote, syntactic sugar? "I actually prefer the term seramony free rather than sin tactic sugar for those kind of things," he said. 'It can really weigh down the joy of reading and writing code'

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