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by bsaul 3452 days ago
Aouch... And there goes my enthusiasm for this language.

I already felt weird knowing Apple didn't use swift internally for their core product, and seing all the huge bugs and crashes remaining in the swift compiler, now i'm left wondering who in the company is going to have sufficient weight to push this language forward.

EDIT : well, on the positive side, he's now free to make the language evolve without caring about the huge objective-c bridging layer and iOS-specific troubles...
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xenadu02 3452 days ago
A programming language transition takes many years. The toolchain must stabilize. Once you nail things down you add ABI stability so the OS can ship with the standard libraries. Only then can you begin rewriting core components.

It is already publicly known that some components are written in Swift, e.g.: the macOS Dock is a Swift application.

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