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		plorkyeran on Sept 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift 6 Swift only got variadic generics fairly recently, and before that you couldn’t write code which was generic over tuple size. Instead you had to codegen versions for each size of tuple you needed to support.

paperplatter on Sept 18, 2024 [–]

I think that was it. There was also something about tuples inside of dictionaries that Swift 1 or 2's compiler segfaulted on.

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