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Swift is an Applications programming language first, digging its way down to the system. Rust on the other hand tries to be a system programming language, but
by Tanegashima 10y ago
Swift is an Applications programming language first, digging its way down to the system.
Rust on the other hand tries to be a system programming language, but with no success at that. And it's not a popular Applications programming language because there's no support from any major software platform vendor.
Swift doesn't have a runtime, a linked library isn't a runtime, if you think it is, then you don't have the qualifications to discuss this.
It is not a problem to store one 50meg file on my 32GB iPhone or 128GB server, it would be in a 32KB microcontroller, but nobody is trying to ship Swift as a language for those.
- solidsnack9000 10y ago> Swift doesn't have a runtime, a linked library isn't a runtime, if you think it is, then you don't have the qualifications to discuss this. My understanding is that it's called "the Objective-C runtime". I don't need any qualifications to call it that! I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to draw.