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		curyous on Feb 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chris Lattner on the Origins of Swift I wouldn't call it solid. On first glance it seems like someone trying to backwards-rationalize an emotional decision.

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It makes sense to me... They wanted to solve issues that come from Python, and lots of languages were no-go. They were left with Swift, Rust, or C++. The determination was that C++ and Rust have unacceptable learning curves, so they went with Swift.

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