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steveklabnik
on Nov 6, 2015
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Why Is Swift's String API So Hard?
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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