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		newZWhoDis on Oct 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17 You don’t need “the API” in another file. Headers are such an idiotic design, over-abstraction harms locality of reasoning.

MBCook on Oct 20, 2023 [–]

They made a TON of sense when memory was very limited.

Why parse out a whole C file when you can get the only bits that matter for compiling your file from a 30 line header?

pjmlp on Oct 20, 2023 | [–]

Except languages with modules already existed, in systems even more constrained memory predating C's invention.

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