alt Hacker NewsI really struggle to imagine an organisation that shepherds a large and venerable C++ codebase migrating over to Swift.
For all of C++'s faults, it is an extremely stable and vendor-independent language. The kind of organisation that's running on some C++ monolith from 1995 is not going to voluntarily let Apple become a massive business risk in return for marginally nicer DX.
(Yes, Swift is OSS now, but Apple pays the bills and sets the direction, and no one is seriously going to maintain a fork.)
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philwelch • 08/01/2025
Maybe not, but an Objective-C++ codebase might be a good candidate.
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saagarjha • 08/02/2025
I think Apple is largely doing this for themselves.
I saw organizations in the past do that with Java and .NET, moving away from C++.
It is perfectly feasable for companies that are full commited into Apple ecosystem.