The public announcement was less then a week ago. Meanwhile in TFA:
reply> ... 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.
replyThe most obvious alternative would be Zig. I don't see any Swift adoption outside the Apple ecosystem.
replyThe key requirement is memory safety, which would rule out Zig.
replyLast time I checked, Zig was breaking it's stdlib, so it's not an alternative imo
replySwift adoption had been dead long before the actual announcement. It's likely Rust was being considered long before this two week experiment with LLMs.
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