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Cyphasetoday at 2:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

The public announcement was less then a week ago. Meanwhile in TFA:

> ... the entire port took about two weeks.

So he was ~halfway in when he made the Swift announcement.


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hackpelicantoday at 3:32 PM

Doesn’t sound like a bad thing to evaluate the most obvious alternative to build confidence before officially pulling the plug.

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hypeateitoday at 4:19 PM

Swift adoption had been dead long before the actual announcement. It's likely Rust was being considered long before this two week experiment with LLMs.