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ben0x539
on Nov 6, 2015
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Why Is Swift's String API So Hard?
Because we spent a lot of time optimizing every assumption for the ascii-only case, and letting go of that simplification is distressing, I guess.
steveklabnik
on Nov 6, 2015
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Yes. And many languages had ASCII-only stuff for a long time, so "real" APIs seem much, much more complex. Of course, that complexity was always there, but us English speakers could mostly just ignore it...
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