I love the kids that say "First reply" EDIT: They can't do that now :)

Do C# pleaseeee

Swift is love ❤️

Can you make a video on "How to research like a pro"

I appreciate this joke

Was just going to write this!

Oh yes plz!

absolutely

yes

Comm of support.

It’s getting there slowly, async/await and other new async features other languages don’t have were just added, as well as better Windows support, so I can see web servers becoming more popular in the next year or two once things catch up

@@randomizednamme even without async await, it's a great language. but the adoption rate tho, low

@@randomizednamme better memory management and generics improvements are on the way now too!

@@adlsfreund waiting for Rust-like ownership, higher kind types and opaque return types with specifiable associated types. And it would be good to get better specialization guarantees for generic types. Oh, and Vapor could really use a complete overhaul inspired by composability patterns seen e.g. in SwiftUI, but swift on the server isn’t really a big thing yet

Caveats: XCode sucks and the compiler sometimes takes minutes to spit out a mysterious segfault without indication what the actual problem was. But it’s not much worse than with other languages. And in return, you get a package manager for which you don’t need to learn another language - it’s swift!

I would definitely recommend it!

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Me too, “What should I invest my time in learning while leaving tons of unfinished side projects?”. Swift was one of the options, so I guess Swift it is.

@@nabil-hh1yv wtf is this

Same here...

Are protocols like interfaces in Java and C#? How do they work?

​@@HDSQ i don't know java or c# but protocols allow you to add custom functionality to structs ,classes and other types that conform(implement) to certain specs that you can define in the protocol. If a struct conforms to a protocol it will gain the functionality implemented in the protocol. It is a very powerful tool which lets you extend and "inherit" functionality by simply conforming to a protocol. you can even create protocols for built in types like arrays etc. eg you could add a protocol to arrays to return all indices of a value in the array. and any array will have access to the protocol.... so long as the array conforms to the protocol ( eg. the elements would probably need to be identifiable; which is also a protocol)

@@HDSQ Yep, similar to Java interfaces. In Swift you can declare properties and methods that a conforming class/struct/enum etc must conform to. You can also create default implementations for these properties and methods like in Java.

@@iTsBadboyJay looks like Kotlin extension functions

You have successfully sold me to pick up swift, thank you good person on the internet.

the best part is you can't tell if he's joking or not

@@lanye2708 I can. He isn't.

@@31redorange08 Yes he is lol

@@lanye2708 He likes to throw in these little easter eggs.

thanks, watched that part five times thinking I was missing it

yeah i too noticed that

The issue is that one needs a mac inorder to build native iOS apps

@@tanaykamath1415 yeah thats stupid. I use linux on my main pc arch btw but use an iPhone as my main mobile device so I cant really develop apps for iOS. Also its really expensive. I guess its just the apple way of doing things

@@tanaykamath1415 I installed macOS on roblox

@@aayushtheapple arch users are the vegans of Linux

@@select_from_users5842 damn true

@Rafly Tzy report

@@abh1yan roger

That's why I'm here. Now I can complete the day thinking that I've done at least something productive! Now, back to procrastinating.

@@ssholum bravo

@@ssholum bravo

The swift “let” === js “const” definitely trips me up a lot

It's even more similar to kotlin

I was gonna say.

Also like Nim

@@thespacejedi it's rather the other way around, Kotlin is similar to swift

And also Luau! (it was recently open sourced, (its a variant of lua but with types and many other useful functions including much more speed!))

@@artoshia roblox lua

If your critical rendering path takes 100 seconds, you might have a performance problem!

The day Jeff makes repaint/reflow in 100 seconds is the day newbies will be able to steal my job, so no thanks XD

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Exquisite choice of topics.

It is. And Swift UI is insanely similar to React/React Native.

Green Sock and Framer Motion would be great!

XCode was also developed by Apple. And calling it shit would be a praise. Obj-C is a bloody mess, and it was also made by Apple. I guess you can see my point. Made by Apple doesn't mean good and sane.

@@mad_t lol, have you used android studio?

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I think this is partly due to differing philosophies between JS and iOS communities. In the iOS world we try and limit the number of dependencies in an app to a small number as it can affect app launch times, not to mention library authors need to update them in a timely manner when Apple breaks shit. So we tend to avoid adding dependencies for small things if possible. This is becoming less true though so if Swift gets wider adoption outside of iOS then I can see this “improving”.

Outside of the Apple ecosystem there is a pretty vibrant Swift backend server community (see Vapor)

Swift has a lot of features, hard to fit into 100 seconds ;)

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Steve jobs didn't have any involvement in its development. It was introduced way after his passing.

> on power with rust and go Largely depends on the context. Rust and Go are in different leagues of there own, e.g. Go would not be the language to implement a kernel. > loosely coupled with apple,it would have seen better adoption on multiple platforms Not sure I agree. If we look at Kotlin, which is not loosely but **largely** coupled with Android development, Stack Overflow Developer Survey shows Kotlin as more loved than Swift. In the same vein as Swift, Kotlin supports multiple platforms via its Kotlin Native via LLVM, the same compiler toolchain as Swift. I think Swift is a very fine language, but I'm not sure if it innovates more than other languages, hence why it's stagnated in adoption outside of iOS.

@@naltun4702 The Swift developers do not prioritise multi-platform support, which is a design goal for Kotlin. That alone explains the difference.

@@naltun4702 Why do you think Kotlin is largely coupled with Android development? Kotlin is pretty popular for backends too.