Swift regret (and this is a big one): type-based overloading

When we were first developing Swift, many of the mainstream languages had type-based overloading (C++, Java, C#), and many didn’t (C, Python, Objective-C). How did Swift end up with it?

— Jordan Rose (@UINT_MIN) August 30, 2021

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Swift regret: AnyObject method dispatch

I bet a lot of people don’t know that you can call methods on AnyObject, as long as they’re ObjC methods. TLDR: I think you shouldn’t have been able to.

But how did that feature end up in the language to begin with?

— Jordan Rose (@UINT_MIN) August 25, 2021

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Swift regret: labeled tuple elements

Yep. All of them. This one’s probably controversial, cause it’s convenient for returning multiple values, right? `-> (x: Double, y: Double)`, right?

— Jordan Rose (@UINT_MIN) August 20, 2021

Part of the Swift Regrets series.

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