OT: Swift is now open source

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 8 December 2015 at 17:16:50 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:38:23 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> On 12/8/15 4:14 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Friday, 4 December 2015 at 03:18:02 UTC, Steven 
>>> Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>> The type system is static, and everything is done via 
>>>> inference, which is very nice.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> According to a swift dev I talked to, part of the algorithm 
>>> is exponential and they have compile time problem because of 
>>> this.
>> 
>> Hm... I don't have the same problems.
>
> I'm guessing it's one of those situations where they have 
> heuristics that normally shrink the problem space down to 3-4 
> options at most, and exponential costs at that point aren't so 
> visible. But in some of their more strenuous test cases, I 
> imagine, the heuristics can't chop down the problem space 
> enough and they get code that takes minutes to compile.

I don't know swift well enough to tell you what are the 
problematic cases. However they seemed to think it was a serious 
issue and improving it is one of their primary goal for swift 3.

Another one is getting the ABI nailed down.