even though it exists to interface with a large legacy utf16-based system, the swift devs still found significant performance benefits in privileging utf8 as the primary encoding of strings:https://swift.org/blog/utf8-string/ …
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I dunno I get a little shiver of delight every time a Go program reports an error “dialing” a network address.
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I'm not even sure it's "worse" than any of the alternatives. It does give up on not privileging one writing system over another in terms of storage, but UCS-2 ultimately failed at that too.
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But is it really “worse is better”? It has so many great properties and almost no downsides. It’s very practical instead of academically elegant but I am not sure this alone qualifies as worse is better.
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