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Closed → Closed → Open
December: time for some confessions/self analysis again
It’s not a secret: I’ve got into programming with GW-BASIC (many years ago), but soon after I’ve entered Microsoft’s development world, with Visual Basic, later Visual J++ (anyone remembers that?), and finally C# and .NET, and I was fully sold into their hermetically closed ecosystem for a long time. And I didn’t even realized it; for more than 20 years!
Being so used to live in the Windows-everything environment back then, I felt very awkward (around 2015–2017) when I’ve seen Microsoft going “too open” from my point of view; by then they’ve embraced JavaScript for Windows development, oh my, and killed the oh-so-loved-by-me Windows Phone project, too.
(But I must admit, I did learn my life lesson and tried to keep my eyes always open afterwards, being more aware of the “outer” world all the time. I was never trapped again into a walled garden, be it even Apple’s, this time!)
Swift was, regardless, love at first sight. Although it has its own quirks, like everything, of course, (e.g. the fact that you often need to capture self as a week reference into escaping closures), its generally beautiful syntax was really triggering happiness to me again, after a long time.
