On: What's new in Swift 3.1

[melling]

Really? I've been programming for almost 35 years and I can't think of many languages that made such big changes. Java, for example, is still compatible with 1.0.

[hota_mazi → melling]

Java is one language among hundreds that have come out these past twenty years.

[melling → hota_mazi]

Yes, I know that. You could provide your examples of some other popular languages that we all know about. Sure, it's easy to change a language no one uses, but when you've got hundreds of thousands of users, it's much harder.