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From this point of view, Swift language is doing right. It is irritating to have to fix a project every few months because Swift language is changing under our feet, but it is still better than having multiple active flavors of Swift. (I still don't love Swift, though.)

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Well, Apple can do whatever they want, with any language they want, better or worse, and they can still force developers to change to the latest thing.

If they say that you can develop for iOS 11 only with Swift 4, not Swift 3< or Objective-C, everybody will have to switch to Swift 4, or else they won't be able to develop to iOS 11.

Even though I also think that Swift is better than Objective-C, and getting better in each version, is not really comparable with Ruby/Python/etc.

Although I haven't had to use it the go solution looks really good to me, just run gofix update your code.

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