I don't want to be a programmer anymore

<nothings> Apple email with subject 'Start developing for iOS 8':
"With over 4,000 new APIs..."
I'm going to stop you right there Apple. No. Just no.

<%yminsky> RT @marius: “4000 new developer APIs” is exactly the opposite of what you want.
<yminsky> Joy: Apple's Swift has variants and pattern matching. Sadness: their documentation is only available in the proprietary ibook format.
<%yminsky> RT @bos31337: It's interesting to compare Swift and Go. One has caught up to the 1990s in language design, with the other firmly in the 60s.
<yminsky> Swift's design is so much less depressing than Go's. Confirmation that algebraic data types are not too hard for real world programmers.
<yminsky> I worry though, that Apple's instincts will lead it to keep Swift closed-source. That will surely limit the language's success.