Pros of Stan

Pros of Swift

• 259

  Ios
• 180

  Elegant
• 126

  Not Objective-C
• 107

  Backed by apple
• 93

  Type inference
• 61

  Generics
• 54

  Playgrounds
• 49

  Semicolon free
• 38

  OSX
• 36

  Tuples offer compound variables
• 24

  Clean Syntax
• 24

  Easy to learn
• 22

  Open Source
• 21

  Beautiful Code
• 20

  Functional
• 12

  Dynamic
• 12

  Linux
• 11

  Protocol-oriented programming
• 10

  Promotes safe, readable code
• 9

  No S-l-o-w JVM
• 8

  Explicit optionals
• 7

  Storyboard designer
• 6

  Optionals
• 6

  Type safety
• 5

  Super addicting language, great people, open, elegant
• 5

  Best UI concept
• 4

  Its friendly
• 4

  Highly Readable codes
• 4

  Fail-safe
• 4

  Powerful
• 4

  Faster and looks better
• 4

  Swift is faster than Objective-C
• 4

  Feels like a better C++
• 3

  Easy to learn and work
• 3

  Much more fun
• 3

  Protocol extensions
• 3

  Native
• 3

  Its fun and damn fast
• 3

  Strong Type safety
• 3

  Easy to Maintain
• 2

  Protocol as type
• 2

  All Cons C# and Java Swift Already has
• 2

  Esay
• 2

  MacOS
• 2

  Type Safe
• 2

  Protocol oriented programming
• 1

  Can interface with C easily
• 1

  Actually don't have to own a mac
• 1

  Free from Memory Leak
• 1

  Swift is easier to understand for non-iOS developers.
• 1

  Numbers with underbar
• 1

  Optional chain
• 1

  Great for Multi-Threaded Programming
• 1

  Runs Python 8 times faster
• 1

  Objec

Cons of Stan

Cons of Swift

• 5

  Must own a mac
• 2

  Memory leaks are not uncommon
• 1

  Very irritatingly picky about things that’s
• 1

  Complicated process for exporting modules
• 1

  Its classes compile to roughly 300 lines of assembly
• 1

  Is a lot more effort than lua to make simple functions
• 0

  Overly complex options makes it easy to create bad code