food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 4/11/19 7:23 PM, Tony wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 April 2019 at 06:23:26 UTC, aliak wrote:
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> 
>> [0] https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-released/
> 
> Still, no (official at least) Windows support. Don't know if that is 
> because there is no interest in broadening the usage or if it is 
> considered too difficult or not worth the effort to do so.
> 

It's probably because there's nothing in Swift that appeals to the same 
sheeple who consider it perfectly normal and acceptable in 2019 to hand 
your entire machine over to a randomly-activated process that hijacks 
all control over your own personal physical property (including the 
ability to close the lid, unplug it, and stick it into its own stupid 
carrying case so you can drive the F*&*ck home without corrupting the 
entire freaking operating system) for an *unspecified* number of 
**HOURS**, while requiring both fast internet access and ZERO 
interactivity, so it can perform the absolute most poorly-implemented 
update process **in computing history**, at its own discretion, while 
silently disabling your complex, hard-to-discover, 
unintuitively-activated pro-privacy settings.