<div>The problem with keeping things simple is that it might become another Java. Great for newbies, nightmare for seniors.</div><div><br></div><div>What you describe is rather bad practices within a team. I have very positive experience with Scala (behemoth?) projects in a mixed newbie/senior team. The key to success is a bit of training to the newbies and very strict rules for everybody to follow.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm afraid we still lack to much in Swift as for today (i.e. good functional capabilities) and if we stop thinking in a "behemoth" way we never get em.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a big difference from one "behemoth" to another. I would compare C++ and Scala. IMO C++ became a bad (fans forgive me, please) kind of "behemoth" because of the legacy nobody wants to get rid of. Scala on the other hand has an opposite approach: "we made a bad decision in the past... screw it. Let's just reimplement it in a different way". As for me the latter is the ONLY viable approach for complicated systems, including "behemoth" languages.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 at 11:30 Georgios Moschovitis via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">While you do have a valid point here, I, for one, would like to use a well-designed ‘behemoth’ language.<br class="gmail_msg">
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If I wanted a more conservative language I would stick with Java (or Objective-C).<br class="gmail_msg">
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