OT: Swift is now open source

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 3 December 2015 at 17:56:49 UTC, tcak wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 December 2015 at 17:13:49 UTC, Jack Stouffer 
> wrote:
>> https://github.com/apple/swift
>
> Everytime I get excited about another programming language, I 
> notice that it lacks some nice features of D, and I become sad 
> suddenly.

Which features do you miss the most in Swift?

My first reaction is: the code base seems to be readable, and 
with comments sprinkled in. Looks like a reasonable 
starting-point for someone wanting to create their own dialect of 
a high level language.

> Some people in the forum are getting into defence and attack 
> mode immediately.

They are just acting. I hope.