[swift-evolution] Philosophy of Swift

[Dave Abrahams]

on Wed Jun 08 2016, Brent Royal-Gordon <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Ack, hit Send while I was still typing.
>
>> Swift does not believe in the no-win scenario. It does not assume
> that strong typing must be cumbersome, that memory-safe code must be
> slow, or that a language must choose whether to be high-level or
> low-level. If two things are desirable, it doesn't just balance them
> against each other; it finds a way to get more of both than you would
> have thought possible, usually through careful design and
> compile-time logic.

Rather grand and inspiring indeed!

-- 
Dave