Michael Tsai
You can tell Swift is fundamentally static because otherwise there couldn’t even be talk about the compiler optimizing the dynamic parts.
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@mjtsai It's as dynamic or static as your program needs to be.
Joe Groff
@jckarter Not when my program is linking to code that already has the dynamism compiled out.
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@mjtsai You can link to public classes and protocols and get the dynamism you expect. -
@jckarter I don't think I could do something like this with a hypothetical Swift AppKit. Dispatch, but no msg send. http://furbo.org/2014/04/18/get-ready-for-june-2nd/ … -
@mjtsai You can't do that today, either. Any change to NSFont's impl could break hacks like this. -
@jckarter It’s not future proof, but it works great for debugging or temporarily working around a framework bug. -
@mjtsai Sure, but then those workarounds end up in production builds, and Foundation grows more scar tissue to work around the workaround. - View other replies
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@jckarter That’s why I said temporary. Long-term, in theory the bug will be fixed, but in the meantime things are broken.
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@mjtsai If you're interfacing with code at the source level, the compiler will accommodate any new code you add.
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