Swift is best language

[PurgeandFire]

why?

because they let you use emoji

also, I proved evolution of mankind as well as our eventual evolution into dragonkin

checkmate C++ users

 

[GhostWolf]

Those silly emoticons are just unicode characters, so saying that it supports the full unicode range for identifier names makes more sense.
That in itself is only impressive because of the terrible unicode support in most software, even though it's bloody 2015 (mostly thanks to Microsoft).

As to the language - not cross platform, so ew.

 

[muzzel]

Ive never tried swift, but that syntax highlighting looks odd.
Why are variables/members green and their declaration black?

At first glance, the "array.removeAtIndex(0)" looked like a static function...

 

[PurgeandFire]

Most declarations (variables, classes, etc.) are written in black. That shade of green is usually reserved for user-defined classes and instances. Purple and purplish-blue is reserved for Apple's built-in libraries.

And yeah, it looked like a static function at first because I carelessly named teh variable 'array'. But you shouldn't be focusing on that. Focus on the emoji. There's one for you too:

@Ghostwolf: How dare you dismiss them as lowly unicode characters! Emoji are their own beautiful entities. And yeah, it isn't cross platform. But the design is pretty awesome! I mean, this is coming from someone who used to have to use objective-C *shudders*.

 

[Almia]

dude, that's like Javascript or Ruby meets Facebook

 

[LordDz]

Phff, Terminator language is best language.

 

[edo494]

erm.......

§2.2[lex.phases].1/1

Physical source file characters are mapped, in an implementation-defined manner, to the basic source character set (introducing new-line characters for end-of-line indicators) if necessary. The set of physical source file characters accepted is implementation-defined.

(Emphasis mine)

So yeah, C++ standard does not say anything about emoji being or not being able to be part of the source code. It boils down to the implementation

 

[PurgeandFire]

@edo: I was joking, I hadn't actually tested it. Yeah, you can use emoji if the compiler supports it. Clang-LLVM supports it just fine.

 

[edo494]

I would not guess someone actually supports it

 

[looking_for_help]

Hm, will check if I can make TESH support this as well, looks funny