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