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Suggest rewrite to express Swift without the marketing angle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.6.205.71 ( talk) 05:22, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
The section on performance is very short: "Many of the features introduced with Swift have well-known performance and safety trade-offs. Apple has implemented optimizations that reduce this overhead.[77]".
It leads to more questions than answers:
Without tackling these issues, this whole section just sounds like: "Apple included stuff that is not good for performance or security, but we won't tell you what it is. Apple thought about these issues, so just trust them and assume that they fixed every problem without requiring any prove or explanation".
In short, this section contains as much information as the sentence "trust me, I'm an engineer".
Laciuhnf (
talk)
15:49, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
Swift seems similar in terms of syntax to Kotlin. Take a look at this comparison: http://nilhcem.com/swift-is-like-kotlin/ Should "Kotlin" be a "Influenced by" entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.0.3.145 ( talk) 08:12, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
No, influenced by languages / languages that Swift influenced need to come from official (from eg Swift designers), credible sources, not by an outsider's opinion how they think two languages are alike. We could for example add that Swift influenced Rust: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:4801:626C:CD45:CED8:69BA:9221 ( talk) 17:49, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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After the third code block in the Basic Syntax section, there's a paragraph beginning:
else
statements require that the given condition is true...
From the context surrounding that paragraph, I feel like references to
should instead be references to else
statements
, but I don't know enough about Swift to be sure. Could someone passing by with more knowledge of Swift please confirm?
KCastellino
talk
15:35, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
guard
statements
I'm surprised this article is rated B-Class because it seems to have an obvious omission: any discussion of the Swift language's impact on the industry, or its level of adoption (for example, to what extent has it replaced Objective-C for developing Mac/iOS apps? is it used outside the Apple ecosystem?). The sidebar says Swift influenced Rust and V, but the body doesn't describe said influence. I would humbly suggest that a knowledgeable editor consider adding this kind of context (and that maybe the article is C-Class as long as that's missing). Graue ( talk) 04:51, 17 April 2024 (UTC)