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Article reads like marketing material for Swift language lovers

Suggest rewrite to express Swift without the marketing angle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.6.205.71 (talk) 05:22, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a sales promotion?

Is the preamble/intro section written by the Apple sales dept? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hence Jewish Anderstein (talk • contribs) 17:25, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Hence Jewish Anderstein: Someone added a {{advert}} template to this article last year, and it's still here. I still don't see anything wrong with the lead section. Does anyone know why this cleanup tag was added to this article? Jarble (talk) 07:37, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Should "Kotlin" be a "Influenced by" entry?

Swift seems similar in terms of syntax to Kotlin. Take a look at this comparison: http://nilhcem.com/swift-is-like-kotlin/ Should "Kotlin" be a "Influenced by" entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.0.3.145 (talk) 08:12, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, influenced by languages / languages that Swift influenced need to come from official (from eg Swift designers), credible sources, not by an outsider's opinion how they think two languages are alike. We could for example add that Swift influenced Rust: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:4801:626C:CD45:CED8:69BA:9221 (talk) 17:49, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

One language or several

Technically Swift isn't one programming language but a family of (to some level) incompatible languages. This due to the forwards compatibility that is assumed as a property in a developing programming language isn't really there. Swift have had large changes in even fundamental parts of the design while still being a young language. The most obvious comparison (in modern programming languages) is that of Python 2.x to 3.x however Python don't do that kind of incompatible forking often and did not as a young language unlike Swift.

I'll not make an edit noting this as I'm a bit biased however it should be mentioned at least; especially as the incompatible changes are common, obvious and seem to be part of the development philosophy. 2.248.146.217 (talk) 10:40, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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