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I always wondered why the creator of Rust switched to Swift and just now found my answer by Graydon Hoare himself: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels

I always wondered why the creator of Rust switched to Swift and just now found my answer by Graydon Hoare himself: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/i_wonder_why_graydon_hoare_the_author_of_rust/ https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/i_wonder_why_g... tl;dr it has nothing to do with the relative merits of the two languages --- Edit: I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd3CzGSte8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd3CzGSte8 Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs

pram 5y ago
“I've always been a language pluralist -- picture my relationship towards languages like a kid enjoying a wide variety of building blocks, musical instruments or plastic dinosaurs -- and I don't think evangelism or single-language puritanism is especially helpful.” What a great statement!