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by anshargal 3276 days ago
I think that very important aspect of achieving world domination for Swift is front-end development for Web (with compiler targeting JS or Web Assembly)

In a way many iOS and macOS applications are front-end software. It much more makes sense to make Swift available for other kinds of front-end development that for server-side coding.
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alper 3270 days ago
That's the most curious part, that he wants to go more low-level with Swift instead of high-level.

Systems programming seems well catered for with Java, Go and Rust while high level application programming is left at the mercy of javascript (I like TypeScript but it's mostly improvements borrowed from C# that are bolted on). I think there would be a lot to gain there first and foremost by compiling Swift to WebAssembly.

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