{"id":11409,"date":"2015-06-04T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11409"},"modified":"2015-06-04T13:42:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:42:38","slug":"why-i-dont-write-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/why-i-dont-write-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&rsquo;t Write Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/khanlou.com\/2015\/06\/why-i-dont-write-swift\/\">Soroush Khanlou<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/khanlou.com\/2015\/06\/why-i-dont-write-swift\/\"><p>Trying to use Swift in any professional capacity is a joke. A very cruel joke. The &ldquo;tooling&rdquo; is terrible: compilation speed has been abysmal, and SourceKit spent the better part of the year as a punchline.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>There&rsquo;s so much new stuff to learn about. But it&rsquo;s not the good kind of learning, where you expand your mind and discover new ways of thinking and working. It&rsquo;s rote memorization of the six new inscrutable ways to make readonly properties. Learning that stuff won&rsquo;t make you a better programmer or thinker, it&rsquo;ll make you better at working around Swift.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Don&rsquo;t get me wrong: that doesn&rsquo;t mean I don&rsquo;t think I <em>can<\/em> write great Swift ever, or that it&rsquo;s not worth learning. It&rsquo;s just not worth shipping code in right now. I love reading the blog posts, with people exploring and researching and trying to understand all the new things we can make.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soroush Khanlou: Trying to use Swift in any professional capacity is a joke. A very cruel joke. The &ldquo;tooling&rdquo; is terrible: compilation speed has been abysmal, and SourceKit spent the better part of the year as a punchline.[&#8230;]There&rsquo;s so much new stuff to learn about. But it&rsquo;s not the good kind of learning, where you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,71,901],"class_list":["post-11409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-languagedesign","tag-programming","tag-swift-programming-language"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11410,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions\/11410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}