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The public announcement was less then a week ago. Meanwhile in TFA: > ... the entire port took about two weeks. So he was ~halfway in when he made the Swift a

• hackpelican 7mo ago
  Doesn’t sound like a bad thing to evaluate the most obvious alternative to build confidence before officially pulling the plug.
  • fmajid 7mo ago
    The most obvious alternative would be Zig. I don't see any Swift adoption outside the Apple ecosystem.
    • Perz1val 7mo ago
      Last time I checked, Zig was breaking it's stdlib, so it's not an alternative imo
    • robryan 7mo ago
      The key requirement is memory safety, which would rule out Zig.
• hypeatei 7mo ago
  Swift adoption had been dead long before the actual announcement. It's likely Rust was being considered long before this two week experiment with LLMs.