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a1369209993 on Sept 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift System Is Now Open Source

> It can be written without using any of its more advanced features

If anything, that's bad, because it invites projects to adopt a impoverished subset of the language that avoids those features, in which case they might as well not exist because you aren't allowed to use them.

saagarjha on Sept 25, 2020 | [–]

I have yet to encounter a project that does not allow contributions that use advanced features.

rat9988 on Sept 25, 2020 | [–]

I'm not sure where is the problem here for the team that doesn't use it.

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