Writing New Code in Swift

Brent Simmons on deciding to write new code in Swift:

And there has to be a time limit. I forget who proposed the 45-minute rule for CSS, where you give up and just use a damn table for your layout. I don’t want to be too quick to punt when using Swift, because it means I won’t be learning as much as I could be (and I need to become expert: that’s the point), but I also can’t let my productivity go too far from what’s normal.

I’ll give myself two hours of banging-head-on-disk, then punt. As a rough guideline. (I’m not actually going to use a stopwatch.) This number may change, but it’s important to have some limit as I’m doing this.

Sounds like a great approach to me.