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We have an alternative that isn't 10x slower, and comes with many other benefits (Rust). The only cost is losing hardware support for some very obsolete and ve
by loeg 1y ago
We have an alternative that isn't 10x slower, and comes with many other benefits (Rust). The only cost is losing hardware support for some very obsolete and very unpopular platforms. (Nevermind that Fil-C's hardware support is narrower than Rust's.)
- ChocolateGod 1y agoRust doesn't automatically add memory safety to all existing C code, which will need to be maintained for decades, Fil-C nearly does and its still early days. > We have an alternative that isn't 10x slower, and comes with many other benefits Anyone involved with development around a fruity company would say Swift ;)
- loeg 1y agoI don't get the impression the Swift team is especially interested in use cases outside of OS X and iOS. (The context here is Debian.)
- ChocolateGod 1y agoThere seems to be a push to get Swift outside of just Apples platforms, namely Linux and Android support and backend micro service developnent.