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astrange on Feb 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

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 on Feb 12, 2021 [–]

Yes, Swift is fundamentally imperative... but it has functional concepts littered throughout in ways that are obtuse, unhelpful, and unavoidable.

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