They abandoned Swift recently.
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.
Doesn’t sound like a bad thing to evaluate the most obvious alternative to build confidence before officially pulling the plug.
The most obvious alternative would be Zig. I don't see any Swift adoption outside the Apple ecosystem.
The key requirement is memory safety, which would rule out Zig.
Last time I checked, Zig was breaking it's stdlib, so it's not an alternative imo
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.
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.
Doesn’t sound like a bad thing to evaluate the most obvious alternative to build confidence before officially pulling the plug.
The most obvious alternative would be Zig. I don't see any Swift adoption outside the Apple ecosystem.
The key requirement is memory safety, which would rule out Zig.
Last time I checked, Zig was breaking it's stdlib, so it's not an alternative imo
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.