Swift's Safety Checks: Why a Crash Can Be Safe
Swift sometimes preserves memory safety by stopping the program. Following a Character initializer into the standard library explains when to use assert, precondition, and fatalError.
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Swift's Actor Model vs Rust's Ownership: Why Rust Doesn't Need Actors
A Swift admirer's deep dive into why the actor model feels like it stops short of full isolation, why Rust reaches data-race freedom without any actors at all, and why adding strict, safe concurrency to a mature language is a monumental engineering pursuit worth praising.