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The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com)
An anonymous reader writes: When Apple made its Swift programming language open source in early December, it opened the floodgates for suggestions and requests from developers. But the project's maintainers have their own ideas about how the language should evolve, so some suggestions are rejected. Now a list has been compiled of some commonly rejected proposals — it's an interesting window into the development of a language. Swift's developers don't want to replace Brace Syntax with Python-style indentation. They don't want to change boolean operators from && and || to 'and' and 'or'. They don't want to rewrite the Swift compiler in Swift. They don't want to change certain keywords like 'continue' from their C precedents. And they have no interest in removing semicolons.
The list and the explanations of why things were rejected really does a great job of illustrating why I like Swift - because the people behind the design have a great amount of practicality tempering the desire to include every modern language feature. It makes Swift nicer to work in, and in the long run will make it a LOT nicer to maintain.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Don't like it? Fork it!
Or don't use it. It is not as if we were short of programming languages.
Perhaps you guys are not aware that Swift is a language to program Apple DuH-vices. iPhones, iPads etcetera. There are NOT a lot of choices of languages when it comes to that.
But I am glad Apple is not buying the Script Kiddies Crap and 'dumbing' down the language. Python is the last language on Earth anyone should be modeling a professional language on. The Last.