[webkit-dev] Swift in WebKit

Sam Weinig weinig at apple.com
Mon Jul 28 16:48:06 PDT 2014


On Jul 28, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Geoffrey Garen <ggaren at apple.com> wrote:

>>> (2) The language and implementation are still changing in breaking ways.
>> 
>> Yep, I concede to this. My only question in response is whether it's valuable to observe those changes in a project like this or even to use a project like this to investigate other points of discussion, like:
>> 
>> - Is there one Swift coding style? If not, what's ours?
>> - What do we need to implement in spite of, or for lack of, a standard library feature?
>> 
>> Or, just save all that for a rainy day, I suppose.
> 
> Interesting. I think it might be valuable to do these things in a limited project, if we can minimize the downside of breaking changes.
> 
> Geoff

I’d also be okay with allowing Swift, in this limited fashion, as an experiment.

- Sam



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