aclissold

Or multiple incognito/private windows :P

As a metro Detroiter about to move to Silicon Valley, this was very interesting to read!

I'd argue that the coworkers that are the most dangerous are the ones you do trust. :)

If they're designing a language for the next 20 years, should they have designed in Objective-C compatibility more tightly? Isn't "afterthought" exactly how it should feel if they plan to remove it someday?

Ahhhh. Maybe I'll switch from <C-a> to <C-s>, I still miss using <C-a> in Vim to increment integers!

Perilously close to the politically-incorrect "databetes."

They're mainly just warnings stemming from dependencies—it compiles just fine in Xcode 6.1.1 after running git submodule update --init and force-unwrapping a bunch of optionals.

Interestingly, it appears to do everything BUT display web pages at this point! Looks very preliminary.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o5kmot2fg6i7wmx/Screenshot%202014-...

Why use a server-side language developed by Google (Go) as an alternative to JavaScript, when you could use a client-side language developed by Google and intended as an alternative to JavaScript (Dart)?

"It’s the syntactic sugar that makes the syntax modern, not the feature set within Swift itself. A cleaner ObjC could have done the same thing."

I think this statement is false—a cleaner Objective-C could be nowhere near as clean as Swift!

The author fails to realize one critical thing—that the imaginary "Objective-C 3" language he wants requires intentionally breaking the fact that Objective-C is a strict superset of C… exactly what Swift has done.

I found Swift to a lot like my favorite programming language, Go, (maybe more in overall feel than in its features). But instead of being a language with a couple of years under its belt, it works outstandingly well with the decades-worth of frameworks built in Objective-C!

I wrote a Python script to convert note names into keys:

https://gist.github.com/aclissold/c6dcdee3838f23cee7cd

…But I stopped caring when I got to filling in the dictionary of notes, so if somebody else wants to finish it, be my guest! ;]

I love Go; having Go as an option for Android development would be awesome because the language is just so much fun. I'm not getting my hopes up though, because Go was intended for server-side stuff. Object-oriented design is a great strategy for rapid app development, and this is the key different between Swift and Go that I've noticed.

A simple Bash script with Git submodules satisfies all those criteria, other than the fact that it should be a separate tool! Feel free to steal ideas from my script if you want to build your own tool: https://github.com/aclissold/dotfiles

I thought about how it should look when I do a fresh install:

sudo apt-get install vim zsh git git clone my repo into .dotfiles cd .dotfiles ./update.sh

and I'm right back to where I was. :). The script differentiates between Mac OS X and Linux, and running git pull followed by update.sh also syncs any changes I may have made on another machine to the current one.