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A programming language transition takes many years. The toolchain must stabilize. Once you nail things down you add ABI stability so the OS can ship with the st
by xenadu02 10y ago
A programming language transition takes many years. The toolchain must stabilize. Once you nail things down you add ABI stability so the OS can ship with the standard libraries. Only then can you begin rewriting core components.
It is already publicly known that some components are written in Swift, e.g.: the macOS Dock is a Swift application.