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0 pointsFRex8y ago0 comments

Which one? There are two languages named Swift:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(parallel_scripting_lang...

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throwaway76458y ago· 2 in thread

Actually 3 if you count SwiftForth, but everyone knows Swift means Apple's new language as realistically nobody has heard of the other two outside small niches.

FRexOP8y ago

I never used any Apple device and have no idea how popular Swift is, I also never coded Objective-C despite using C and C++ a lot in my hobby programming.

It'd not surprise me that IBM was supporting something niche/enterprise-y though, especially an "implicitly parallel programming language that allows writing scripts that distribute program execution across distributed computing resources,[2] including clusters, clouds, grids, and supercomputers", seems like their thing.

Thanks for the downvotes for asking I guess.

throwaway76458y ago

I've never used an Apple device either apart from an iPhone 1 10 years ago and mostly only program in Python. I hope my post didn't come across as condescending/combative or in anyway demeaning (hard to tell context in a post). I was just saying most people on HN wouldn't confuse the 2. Thanks for pointing out the latter btw (which I'd never heard of before, but looks really cool). I didn't downvote you btw, just responded.

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