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Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

256 points • by behnamoh • yesterday at 10:05 PM • 240 comments • view on HN

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FranklinJabar • today at 1:55 AM

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prairieroadent • today at 2:39 AM

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MarginalGainz • today at 12:10 AM

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IshKebab • yesterday at 10:48 PM

Interesting. I'm not totally sold - still seems like Swift is quite niche and Apple-specific - but I might take another look.

Also you might want to rework the `Box` example because you don't actually need to use `Box` in that case - the `Vec` already provides indirection.

ewuhic • yesterday at 10:41 PM

>Swift is more convenient Rust

Nah.

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amelius • yesterday at 11:01 PM

> Swift is better for writing UI and servers and some parts of compilers and operating systems.

For UI, why would anyone choose a language that has no automatic GC that can handle cycles?

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