<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://swift.org/about/" class="">https://swift.org/about/</a> has some pretty good verbiage about this. In particular:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">"Swift is a <i class="">safe</i> language."</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>in that the obvious thing should be safe, and unsafe things should require a bit of reaching. That's more important to me than a lot of other things that happen to be true.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(I've been sneakily saying this in person every time someone asks me, but I guess I can say it out loud here. Please don't call it an "official Apple opinion" or "official <a href="http://swift.org" class="">swift.org</a> opinion", though. It's "one Swift compiler developer's opinion". :-) The official swift.org opinion is how it's phrased on swift.org.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jordan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 8, 2016, at 6:18, Brandon Knope via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">My favorite is that Swift is an opinionated language :P<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">We intentionally want Swift to have a common “center of gravity” and be an</span><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" class="">opinionated</b>” language, rather than fall to the “design by committee” approach that leads to a
watered-down design”</pre><pre style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">This was from Chris Lattner</pre><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Reference: <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/2040/match=opinionated" class="">Re: [Review] Replace `typealias` keyword with `associatedtype` for associated ty</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brandon</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 8, 2016, at 9:03 AM, Jonathan Hull via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">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…<br class=""><br class="">I have heard things like:<br class="">“Swift is a practical language”<br class="">“Swift is the first Protocol Oriented Language”<br class=""><br class="">How would you define Swift in your own words?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Jon<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution" class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a><br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>