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Considering Swift was primarily written in C++, perhaps Swift was always destined to follow the same path?



So following this same reasoning Python should become C?


I like how you think. I'm down for it. I have never liked dynamically typed languages.


Makes some sense, since its developers probably thought C++ was a pretty good idea, it just needed some more features. Same mindset that killed Rust for me.

I gave up on C++ for good reasons, after spending roughly 20 years trying to make sense of it.


Why not just code in a small, sane subset of C++ that you understand perfectly? That's what I do with TypeScript and it works fine.




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