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pjmlp on April 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming

> To me it seems like they are thinking a generation or two ahead with their tooling while the outside observers can't imagine anything beyond 80s era language design.

Given the ML and Modula-3 influences in Swift, and the Xerox PARC work on Mesa/Cedar, it looks quite 80s era language design to me.

DeathArrow on April 11, 2020 [–]

Swift inherits some APIs from Objective C.

You have to use something like CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent while even in something not very modern like C# you would use DateTime.Now()

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