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

[Timon Gehr]

On 13.04.19 10:22, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> 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/
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>> 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.

I'm not sure why similar arguments do not apply to users of Apple devices.