Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "@buzz @mrb_bk My perspectives on OO broadly align with this talk; I think Swift expresses those concepts nicely: https://t.co/KVXfEXKr9W" / Twitter

Thought much about Swift yet? What are the cool things in your opinion? What do you think of its perspective on OOP?

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Already lots of discussion Twitter about the design/performance tradeoffs and subtleties of using classes vs. structs, etc.

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got a couple links?

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Discussions like this: twitter.com/andy_matuschak /cc

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· Jun 8, 2014

@maxpow4h Curious: why do you use classes instead of structs for implementations in swiftz?

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My perspectives on OO broadly align with this talk; I think Swift expresses those concepts nicely: destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundari

5:23 PM · Jun 9, 2014Twitter for Mac

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very cool!

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One more question - got a (hopefully concise) bit of Swift code handy that illustrates this?

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You mean the preference for structs and simple data types over classes?

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I'd love to translate to Ruby for pedagogical purposes.

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