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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com>:

> A Python with static typing would have been far better, IMHO.

I don't think static typing and Python should be mentioned in the same
sentence.

> It seems they have created a Python-JavaScript bastard with random mix
> of features. Unfortunately they retained the curly brackets from JS...

It seems Swift is more of an imitation of Go than Python.

Swift leaves me cold: I actually *like* semicolons.


Marko