CHchakrit·Aug 3, 2015Submission
Swift's Mirror is now documented
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SwiftInFlux
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ksm / SwiftInFlux
SwiftInFlux
An attempt to gather all that is in flux in Swift.
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An attempt to gather all that is in flux in Swift.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 2014 | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Aug 2014 | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2014 | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2014 | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2014 | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2014 | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2015 | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2015 | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2015 | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2015 | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2015 | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2015 | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesIt's not "one perceived limitation" though. You work with Swift enough, you start tripping over things like this on a regular basis. I think I've had "Oh this isn't implemented yet… wait, my workaround isn't implemented either!" dance several times.
They aren't limitations by design. They are just things that the Swift team haven't gotten around to doing yet. Take a look at some of the messages from Apple engineers tracked by Swift in Flux [0], for example. It's full of things like:
> Optional methods in protocols are limited to @objc protocols only because we haven't implemented them in native protocols yet. This is something we plan to support.
…and:
> > [Is there any] specific reason why you can't reference initializers like a function?
> No particular reason, it's just not implemented.
…and:
> We currently have limitations in the
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type system and implementation that force some things (e.g. countElements and many others) to be global functions instead of methods, but we consider this a deficiency, not a feature.
…and:
> The prevalence of generic free functions is more about current language limitations than an intentional stylistic direction
It's a good language, but it's terribly unfinished. Back when Swift was in beta, things like this were to be expected, but Swift 1.2 feels more like Swift 0.2 to me. Apple are filling in the missing parts, but at the rate they are going, it will probably only end up feeling like a complete language at next year's WWDC.
[0] https://github.com/ksm/SwiftInFlux
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