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coldtea on June 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Swift will be open source later this year”

>Parsing a JSON response into a Swift object takes a full-day to figure out when it's literally just JSON.parse(response) in any other language.

Something which has nothing to do with the language.

Here's how you do it with a popular Swift lib:

let json = JSON(data: response)

if let userName = json[0]["user"]["name"].string{ .... }

chc on June 8, 2015 [–]

Eh, the awful state of their respective standard libraries seems to come up quite a bit when people are critiquing OCaml or D.

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