Every time I read about new Swift features, I'm reminded of this paragraph from Aaron Hillegass's book "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X". I don't know why.
Once upon a time, there was a company called Taligent, which was created by IBM and Apple to develop a set of
tools and libraries like Cocoa. About the time Taligent reached the peak of its mindshare, I met one of its
engineers at a trade show. I asked him to create a simple application for me: A window would appear with a
button, and when the button was clicked, the words "Hello, World!" would appear in a text field. The engineer
created a project and started subclassing madly: subclassing the window and the button and the event handler.
Then he started generating code: dozens of lines to get the button and the text field onto the window. After 45
minutes, I had to leave. The app still did not work. That day, I knew that the company was doomed. A couple of years
later,Taligent quietly closed its doors forever.
