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123: “The evolution of Swift”, with special guest Nick Lockwood

Swift by Sundell

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Kotlin vs JavaScript

Swift was designed to get rid of the inherent like safety issues and memory dangers with C and Objective C. In many ways, Swift is a lot more like Rust in terms of kind of the problems it's trying to solve. Like Kotlin has no pretense of being like a systems language. It's really still solving the same problems in the same domain. With Swift, you've got this shift to static types and static dispatch. And that makes it quite a different beast from Objective C.

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