My favorite kind of errors are errors that aren’t errors but fail like errors because they’re really errors that don’t know they’re errors.

Coding in Swift would be much easier if the damned IDE (the only one that you can use for it today) would actually work when editing Swift code.

As it stands, however, Xcode regularly tries to compile while you’re halfway through writing a symbol and then leaves the error up there for minutes at a time until you manually tell it to re-build the file. Then if you do something unexpected like actually delete something and then type something new then the syntax highlighting (and general language-based parsing) get boned all to hell and give you nonsense like this:

A Day of Programming:

Sometimes days are like this:

In my experience, a lot of days are like that.