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ttfleeyesterday at 3:59 AM2 repliesview on HN

Why not using Swift?


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norman784yesterday at 6:57 AM

Swift is very weak outside Apple ecosystem, compared to Rust. Not sure nowadays, but Swift used to have breaking changes each major release, that's a non go for a big project.

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Ygg2yesterday at 10:05 AM

Andreas Kling talked about it. It boils down to C++ interop sucks (no surprise for lang made by Apple), ecosystem is tiny, Rust works well enough with LLMs.

https://youtu.be/DbHjKi_jASY

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