Andreas Kling announces Swift as Ladybird's future language for better safety and ergonomics. Full transition awaits Swift 6.

I would have preferred Rust, a language created by Mozilla instead of one with ties to Apple, but I’m not a dev so I can’t really judge. What are your thoughts?

  • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    Barrier to contribute in Swift is wwwaaaaayyyy lower then Rust.

    We once ported and Swift App to Kotlin by copy+pasting. It was one day of work.

    Rust - imo - is overhyped. It has its niches. But to me it is not the swiss army knife. Swift has better expressiveness then Rust.