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jtdev
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Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
Agreed, Swift has an obsession with functional programming that is just so off-putting to me and I suspect many others.
astrange
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The type system is kind of sort of vaguely ML/Haskell-like despite looking like C. Is that what you mean?
It certainly isn't a functional programming language. It's intentionally imperative.
jtdev
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Yes, Swift is fundamentally imperative... but it has functional concepts littered throughout in ways that are obtuse, unhelpful, and unavoidable.
jshier
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This is hilariously wrong. Actual fans of functional programming would disagree with you, as there are several things Swift doesn't do to enable pure functional programming.
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