Chapter 15Swift: What You Need to Know
by Mark Chu-Carroll
The motivations behind the development of computer languages matter. Haskell was developed for research in functional language design. Clojure was designed around the idea that functional style and pervasive immutability are prerequisites for concurrency. Elixir was designed with high extensibility and productivity in mind. But in Swift, we are looking at a replacement for an existing language, created for a base of developers who may be interested in getting the benefits of functional programming, but who don’t necessarily want to shift to an entirely new paradigm. The PragPub authors examined Swift shortly after its release with this hybrid purpose in mind.
In 2014, Apple announced ...
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