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How we built an interpreter for Swift

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82 points jacobx | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 16:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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jgbuddy ◴[04 Sep 25 18:29 UTC] No.45130570[source]▶
Swift can already be used in REPL mode, not sure if it's accurate to say Swift is a strictly compiled language that a interpreter was developed for (see 'swift' command line executable). Seems misleading that this is not mentioned anywhere in the article.
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1. firloop ◴[04 Sep 25 18:33 UTC] No.45130633[source]▶
++ had the same reaction as you. When I was picking up Swift, the interpreter was invaluable to check my understanding (although I nearly always needed to begin with `import Foundation` to have my code actually work).