food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.
Timon Gehr
timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Sun Apr 14 00:34:04 UTC 2019
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:
>>>
>>
>>> [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.
I'm not sure why similar arguments do not apply to users of Apple devices.
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