Nacho Soto on Twitter: "@tapbot_paul @davbeck if Apple knows there's no workaround for their bugs, maybe they'll get better at shipping quality software."

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Paul Haddad ‏@tapbot_paul Jul 18

My outsider’s perspective of Swift: X can be misused, so we’re banning X. Seems like coding with safety scissors. https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution-announce/2016-July/000234.html …
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David Beck ‏@davbeck Jul 18 Sparks, NV

@tapbot_paul More like it forces you to think about potential issues. Subclassing hasn’t been banned, you just have to add a single keyword.
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Paul Haddad ‏@tapbot_paul Jul 18

@davbeck Apple doesn’t add that keyword to a class in some new framework, now what?
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Nacho Soto ‏@NachoSoto Jul 18

@tapbot_paul @davbeck Apple changes the base class you had overridden and now your app is broken. Now what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_base_class …
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Paul Haddad ‏@tapbot_paul Jul 18

@NachoSoto @davbeck I fix the app and re-ship, or I don’t. Not really any diff than whatever other bits they break in every OS release.
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Nacho Soto ‏@NachoSoto Jul 18

@tapbot_paul @davbeck how about not writing bugs in the first place? If we always fix bugs my introducing new ones, we'll never finish.
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