[swift-evolution] Philosophy of Swift

[Brandon Knope]

My favorite is that Swift is an opinionated language :P

"We intentionally want Swift to have a common “center of gravity” and be an
“opinionated” language, rather than fall to the “design by committee” approach that leads to a
watered-down design”
This was from Chris Lattner

Reference: Re: [Review] Replace `typealias` keyword with `associatedtype` for associated ty <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/2040/match=opinionated>

Brandon

> On Jun 8, 2016, at 9:03 AM, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> I am (somewhat unexpectedly) teaching a class in Swift/iOS starting later this week, and I was hoping to get a couple of quotes to share with my students from the community (and ideally a core team member) about what they believe the general philosophy behind Swift is…
> 
> I have heard things like:
> “Swift is a practical language”
> “Swift is the first Protocol Oriented Language”
> 
> How would you define Swift in your own words?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon
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