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Cyphase 11 hours ago

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 announcement.

hackpelican 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Doesn’t sound like a bad thing to evaluate the most obvious alternative to build confidence before officially pulling the plug.

fmajid 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The most obvious alternative would be Zig. I don't see any Swift adoption outside the Apple ecosystem.

robryan an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The key requirement is memory safety, which would rule out Zig.

Perz1val 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Last time I checked, Zig was breaking it's stdlib, so it's not an alternative imo

hypeatei 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.